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Good thing for China that it doesn't depend on the consent of the Tibetans to rule Tibet. A 14-year-old boy recognized as the 17th Karmapa - a senior figure in Tibetan Buddhism - has fled to Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's headquarters in India. It was reported Friday that...
The Karmapa's flight caps a year in which the authorities in Beijing are facing growing discontent from religious believers of varied stripe. Besides the challenge represented by the widespread Falun Gong sect, which was banned amid national protests in the summer, Beijing has faced continued resistance from Islamic separatists...
"McCain is suffering the consequences of holding himself up as a different kind of politician," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "While there was nothing improper about the letter on the face of it, and McCain has repeatedly warned that soft money corrupts 'us all,' his populist appeal makes him...
It appears there's just no such thing as good news when it comes to reproductive rights. You might expect that the latest word on abortions - a Centers for Disease Control report that they're at a 20-year low - would be cause for smiles on both sides of the...
But it's easy see the news as promising. Abortions are at a two-decade low in relation to the number of able-bodied women in the population, as well as to the number of births. The CDC cites a number of factors for the trend, including more information on...