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...Chen considers politics “a very contact-driven profession...
...critics, Mbeki is aloof, arrogant and prickly. Gevisser does not dispute that judgment, but he says those traits are grounded in conviction and circumstance. "If Mbeki has been driven by one overarching dream, it is that of self-determination," writes Gevisser. It began, he thinks, with Mbeki's embrace of exile as a new beginning. "Of all Thabo Mbeki's friends from exile I met during the research for this book not one recalled him, ever, talking about his childhood, or even mentioning the place of his birth," says Gevisser...
Defeated, Marxism is no longer the incarnation of evil in our midst, but rather the perfect (vanquished) foil in Benedict's ongoing intellectually driven sermon that Christian faith is history's only true answer. But the Pope is not ready to declare victory. The Church's current foe, as he sees it, is still in the heart of Europe and still atheist in nature: a sort of post-Socialist, anything-goes brand of Utopia that Benedict calls "relativism" - and disparages as the root of everything from loose sexual mores to a breakdown of the traditional family to runaway capitalism...
...Augustine, the Pope's personal intellectual and spiritual guide, to illuminate "all the contradictions and hopes" of human existence. "In some way we want life itself, true life, untouched even by death; yet at the same time we do not know the thing towards which we feel driven," the Pope writes. "This unknown 'thing' is the true 'hope' which drives us." But this eminently cerebral Pope makes clear that his vision of the Christian message is much more than an intellectual exercise. "The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes...
...Barack Obama is not such a person. His books show a man nothing less than driven by a determination to be black, as if blackness were more a specific achievement than a birthright. This drive puts Obama at odds with his own political persona. Much of the excitement that surrounds him comes from the perception that he is only lightly tethered to race. Yet the very arc of his life--from Hawaii to the South Side of Chicago--has been shaped by an often conscious resolve to "belong" irrefutably to the black identity...