| When she picks up gavel again, Pelosi will preside over a very different House Posted: 02 Jan 2019 12:51 PM PST ![When she picks up gavel again, Pelosi will preside over a very different House]( "When she picks up gavel again, Pelosi will preside over a very different House") After the November elections, when Nancy Pelosi was still working on winning over Democrats who opposed her for speaker, incoming Congresswoman Donna Shalala met with her to talk about what committees she could be considered for. "Ask for the moon!" she said, according to Representative-elect Shalala. As a former cabinet secretary in the Clinton administration and a university president in Florida, Shalala knows her power.
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| Why civic values are Taiwan’s best defense Posted: 02 Jan 2019 12:19 PM PST ![Why civic values are Taiwan's best defense]( "Why civic values are Taiwan's best defense") In a rather public debate, the leaders of China and Taiwan have revealed what it takes to create a national identity rooted in shared ideals. Let's just say the small island nation off China's coast won, as its president's statements make clear. On Tuesday, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan gave a New Year's speech in which she said her 24 million people insist on freedom and democracy, unlike on the mainland.
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| Prophet, or prattler of the impossible? Israel recalls Amos Oz. Posted: 02 Jan 2019 11:57 AM PST ![Prophet, or prattler of the impossible? Israel recalls Amos Oz.]( "Prophet, or prattler of the impossible? Israel recalls Amos Oz.") For decades a tradition was honored in Israel, that its most celebrated poets, novelists, and thinkers occupied a rarefied place in the halls of power and influence. Oz, whose love for his country filled the pages of his best-selling and internationally acclaimed books, was for decades also an unofficial spokesman for the peace movement. The Zionist left still reveres him as a hero, the conscience of the nation, and now reels in grief and wonders how Israel will find its way without him.
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| How Rwanda's Catholic clinics struck a contraception compromise Posted: 02 Jan 2019 08:12 AM PST ![How Rwanda's Catholic clinics struck a contraception compromise]( "How Rwanda's Catholic clinics struck a contraception compromise") The Roman Catholic health center that hugs the main road here announces its faith plainly. ARCHDIOCESE OF KIGALI, reads the sign sprawled across the facade of the stout red brick building in this small town just outside Rwanda's capital. Holographic portraits of Jesus and Mary stare down from the walls of every exam and consultation room, and nuns wander the corridors in full gray habits.
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