nbsp Pune India At the end of my first report on my 10-week trip to India I mentioned that I was on my way to Kolkata Calcutta and although I was there for only a brief four days it was a most interesting visit Kolkata as you will know was the capital of the British Raj in its early ye
Paul Elie at quot Everything that Rises quot has a nice magazine mash up over America 39 s Colbert cover v Rolling Stone 39 s Pope cover Some highlights quot Stephen Colbert nbsp on the cover of nbsp America and Pope Francis nbsp on the cover of nbsp Rolling Stone it rsquo s as if every Bell
The new this-should-be-talked-about book is a big one mdash 1 250 pages of 6 million words mdash yet it rsquo s a quick read All 6 million words are the same one word only printed 6 million times The author Phil Chernofsky tells the New York Times nbsp that each word mdash Jew mdash symboliz
Editor rsquo s Note Some of the challenges facing Honduras today are featured in the Feb 10 issue of America After the country held national elections on Nov 24 America nbsp asked Ismael Moreno Coto S J popularly known as Padre Melo to reflect on the implications of the elections Padre Mel
ldquo Leave out the women and you don rsquo t have a full and robust economy Lead with the women and you do rdquo These are the opening words of the report by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress titled ldquo The Shriver Report A Woman rsquo s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Pete Seeger Mayflower American World War II vet Harvard dropout folk archivist union agitator ldquo unreliable rdquo Communist Party member Weaver husband father and grandfather a banjo picker passed away last night Seeger of course will be remembered for his incomparable contribution