Keywords: International Students
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AUSTRALIA
- Suzanna Koster
- 11 July 2007
This week's operation against the radical clerics has prompted messages of support for Pakistan's General Musharraf from western allies. But in the eyes of the common Pakistanis the president has lost credibility forever.
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AUSTRALIA
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 11 July 2007
There may be ideological sympathy on the part of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah for Al Qaeda, but there has been no direct affiliation between between the two groups since 2003. Al Qaeda, it seems, has dismissed JI as ineffectual—they keep getting caught.
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AUSTRALIA
- Rodrigo Acuña
- 16 April 2007
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has urged the Catholic Church to take its part in building his 'Socialism for the 21st century'. In return, the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference has called for a "style of socialism that upholds free speech, tolerates opposing views and respects religious education".
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INTERNATIONAL
- Bryan Pipins
- 04 April 2007
Bryan Pipins on the universal need for food, nourishment, and traffic laws that make sense.
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AUSTRALIA
- Stefan Gigacz
- 02 April 2007
1 Comment
French Presidential candidate Francois Bayrou could emerge as favourite for the run off as socialists and conservatives seek to block their rivals from the Presidency. The 55 year old practising Catholic has managed to carve out political positions that respect Church teaching without necessarily alienating other groups.
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AUSTRALIA
- Greg O'Kelly
- 02 April 2007
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Australia is ranked 29th internationally in the teaching of maths and science. To suggest that a national curriculum would raise such a ranking is a non sequitur. Curriculum is about content. It's standards that refer to performance measurement.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
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One of Jesuit congressman Robert Drinan's political claims to fame was that he had moved the first motion of impeachment against Richard Nixon. He showed that the mix of politics and religion on Capitol Hill was difficult, especially concerning abortion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 27 February 2007
In the 1990s, Soeharto and his ministers were renting their power to business-savvy ethnic Chinese. The masses, unable to vent their anger at corrupt officials, shifted their targets to those associated with them, knowing that they could do that with impunity.
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