Ngoại trưởng Úc thăm Văn Miếu

28/03/2012

 - Trước cuộc hội đàm với người đồng cấp Việt Nam chiều nay, Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Úc dành thời gian thăm quan Văn Miếu - Hà Nội. 

Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Úc Bob Carr thăm chính thức Việt Nam trong hai ngày 27 và 28/3. Hôm qua, ông có mặt tại TP HCM để khai trương Tổng lãnh sự quán Australia. Trong chương trình tại Hà Nội hôm nay, ông có cuộc hội đàm với Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Phạm Bình Minh, gặp gỡ Bộ trưởng Kế hoạch - Đầu tư Bùi Quang Vinh và đến chào xã giao Chủ tịch nước Trương Tấn Sang.

Chiều nay, Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Úc dành thời gian thăm quan Văn Miếu - Hà Nội:

The Meaning of Religious Freedom

March 27, 2012, 11:32 AM

By ANDREW ROSENTHAL

During the recent debate over birth control insurance coverage, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops defined religious freedom as theirfreedom from government.

The First Amendment does, of course, protect religions from government interference in rites and beliefs. But the opposite is also true, and equally important. The “establishment clause” also protects people from efforts by leaders of any church to impose their religious beliefs on the public.

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A Chinese student at the Education Expo in Beijing, China, on October 16, 2011. More than 300,000 Chinese students studied abroad last year, and China welcomed nearly that many foreign students to its own schools.

By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE

Published: March 27, 2012

PARIS — While finishing high school near Pune, India, Pooja Modi started looking for university engineering programs online. Eighteen years old at the time, she knew she wanted to become a solar energyexpert.

Fugitive Slave Mentality

March 27, 2012, 9:45 PM

By ROBERT GOODING-WILLIAMS

The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.

TAGS:

RACE, SLAVERY, TRAYVON MARIN

Before he temporarily stepped down from his position last week as chief of the Sanford, Fla., police department, Bill Lee Jr., gave an explanation of his decision not to arrest George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin. Lee said he had no reason to doubt Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense. Though Lee is no longer in the spotlight, his words linger for at least one compelling reason: his explanation bears an eerie resemblance to cases brought under the Fugitive Slave Law during the Antebellum period. Today, a legal standard that allowed the police chief to take Zimmerman at his word recalls the dark past of slave-owners claiming their property. The writings of Martin Delany, the African American political philosopher and activist, shed light on the uncanny resemblance.