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Sun, March 29, 2020 | 22:17

Election and gambling

Election and gambling

Gamblers always look for games, legal or illegal, on which they can bet money. The more exciting the games are, the larger the stakes grow. Not even presidential elections escape the attention of eager gamblers. On Jan. 11, voters in Taiwan will take to the polls to select their new leader, the first political event of the year.

2020-01-05 16:56

Putin's press conference

Putin's press conference

President Vladimir Putin of Russia held his traditional year-end press conference on Dec. 19. The main news is there was none, save for coy hints he may change the constitution to remain in office beyond 2024.

2020-01-03 17:18

The Two Popes

Is change possible? Can two different perspectives be integrated with each other? Can conservative and progressive, introspective and extroverted, social and hermitic natures harmonize?

2020-01-02 17:21

'Wisdom literature'

'Wisdom literature'

Long ago the following question was presented to me: What work of literature has surprised you or unsettled you or challenged you, and in what way? My response follows.

2020-01-01 17:55

On trial

On Dec. 23, I had to, for the first time in my life, appear before the court as a criminal defendant, accused of "conspiratorial business obstruction,” together with my wife as well as a senior married couple, both of them highly respected community leaders in our urban neighborhood.

2019-12-31 17:09

Let's take climate action

Let's take climate action

Sometimes I say or write something as the first step to action. I announce that I will do something helpful or that I will not do something harmful. It is ideal to act immediately but even if I can't I eventually come to act after several months or a year - to be true to my word, to live as I wrote.

2019-12-30 17:15

'Warrior in white'

'Warrior in white'

In early December, Dr. Kirby Southall invited his Sunday school class and others to his countryside home for a pre-Christmas party. Pressed by friend and counselor-at-law Ernie Holleman, it was a bit of a drive there, but well worth attending, as kindness and friendliness were in the air.

2019-12-29 17:46

Peace and war at Christmas

Peace and war at Christmas

Christmas season this year falls on the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest battle in the history of the United States. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous offensive through the quiet, thinly defended Ardennes Forest in Belgium. Adolf Hitler and planners in Berlin achieved total surprise; German forces gained ground rapidly.

2019-12-27 16:36

Sr. Dorotea

In the 1960s in the Daughters of St. Paul in Korea, several foreign missionaries lived to lay the foundation of the Congregation that celebrates its 60th anniversary of the foundation in 2020. At present, only one Italian missionary Sr. Elena Maria Dorotea D'Oto is still living with us in the community in Seoul.

2019-12-26 17:27

Boris Johnson

Britain's Conservative Party and Prime Minister Boris Johnson have reasons to feel great satisfaction. The durable political party has scored an impressive political victory in the Dec. 12 general election.

2019-12-25 17:23

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