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...support has become less enthusiastic in this election season. "I think we need to put some pressure on the Iraqi government," Shays told me after returning, in late August, from his 14th visit to the war zone. He said he was frustrated by the inability of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to create a government of national unity. "We should set out a phased-withdrawal plan, drawing down our troops as the number of Iraqi troops increases." Shays insists his new position isn't a sign of electoral panic. He points to public and private polls that show him ahead...
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...shoulder, basketball and soccer players often have trouble in one or both of the knees. Divers, cheerleaders, gymnasts and football linemen, meanwhile, are susceptible to stress fractures of the lower back. Indeed, lower-back pain is normally uncommon in adolescents. If it shows up, parents should schedule an immediate visit to a doctor...
...true that German Catholicism is as tired as some people think," he said. The 79-year-old pontiff also made an explicit reference to his age, when asked why he was remaining in the southern region of Bavaria (where he will visit his birthplace in Marktl am Inn), foregoing visits to Berlin and other German cities. "I'm an old man," he said, "and I don't know how many more years the Lord will give...
Though already well-known in Catholic theological circles, the 50-year-old Father Joseph Ratzinger was prepared to live out a life of relative obscurity in the quiet confines of German academia. Then one day in 1977, the professor-priest received a fateful visit from a Church official in his study at the University of Regensburg. "We chatted about some insignificant matters," Ratzinger recalled in his memoirs "Milestones, 1927-1977" "and then finally he pressed a letter into my hand, telling me to read it and think it over at home...