AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain makes a campaign stop to talk with small business leaders Thursday at the Schmidt's Restaurant and Banquet Haus in Columbus. At right is Duane...
Must-reads: Doug Saunders in Belgrade; Graham Thomson on literacy-for-food in Afghanistan. Obamamania The Toronto Star executes a collective swoon for the Democratic nominee. Barack Obama’s call for 10,000 more American troops...
overseas, but he may have a few concerns on the homefront. “John McCain has opened a modest lead over Barack Obama in the key swing state of Ohio,” reports Rasmussen. “The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the...
Green Cine has posted their list of the 8 The Most Spiritually Affecting Buddhist Movies. All I can think is that in some cases they have stretched the definition of Buddhism beyond anything I recognize, I mean Revenge of the...
Olga Murray of Sausalito, Calif. had been volunteering for five years in Nepal, helping abandoned and disabled children get an education, when she read something in the newspaper that she couldn't believe. In the southern Dang...
How Does the Dalai Clique Carry Out His Separatist Activities?Starting from the point of maintaining the unification of the motherland and national unity, the central government adopted an attitude of patient waiting towards...
Anyone who's travelled through Europe for a few weeks will have heard the term "ABC", or "Another Bloody Cathedral". (Or, if you've been there for more than a few weeks, "AFC".) It's the cathedral fatigue that you inevitably...
MOST TALKED ABOUT: THE POPE AND TIM FISCHER “THERE is only one true perfect practising Catholic, and he has just left Sydney this morning,” says the Catholic Tim Fischer, Australia’s newly appointed first resident ambassador to...
Tibetan writer, a rare outspoken voice against Beijing's policies, sues Chinese government By AUDRA ANG | Associated Press Writer 3:25 AM EDT, July 23, 2008 1 2 next BEIJING (AP) _ The poet Woeser has long been a rarity — a...
Since the incident in April, when the Olympic torch was extinguished by Pro-Tibet protestors in Paris, Chinese consumers have responded with boycotts of popular French brands like Carrefour and Dior. Adding to the anti-French...