Word: consulate
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Leth, a genial gent who serves as Denmark's honorary consul in Haiti, finds each of the obstructions "satanic" and "ruinous." He's like the well-behaved weekend guest of a dotty lord who has refurbished the bedrooms in his country house as torture chambers. But Leth is also a game fellow who realizes, perhaps more quickly than Von Trier, that all art has its rules and that the stranger the rules, the more fun in following and subverting them. Leth's Cuban segment is a suave and colorful abstraction; the cartoon (made in collaboration with Waking Life co-director...
...police force and passed the Speedy Trial Act for quick dispensation of justice. Your article has done a major injustice to a country that is forging ahead as a functioning democracy despite huge constraints of poverty, overpopulation and all the other ills that characterize underdevelopment. A.K.M. Atiqur Rahman Consul-General Consulate General for the People's Republic of Bangladesh Hong Kong...
...presentation of the five pointed cross of the order was made by J. C. Joseph Flamand, French consul at Boston, in behalf of the French Government. The ceremony took place in the faculty room of University Hall in the presence of Mrs. Lowell and deans of the College...
...institution-building in Haiti than they did a decade ago. When Prime Minister Yvon Neptune (a staunch Aristide ally) presented Alexandre to the press hours after Aristide?s farewell, they were both accompanied by Foley-a strong indication that the ambassador may now be America?s de facto pro consul now in Haiti. ?I think it?s very clear that the efforts made 10 years ago did not yield the intended results,? said Foley. ?There are a lot of lessons to be learned from that experience.? And a dire need to apply them right this time...
Twelve minutes later, in the city's historic Beyoglu district, Victoria Short, wife of the British consul general, stepped across the narrow street from her husband's office to pick up milk for his coffee. She paused to chat with the shop owner as a green catering van sped up the narrow street, smashed into tall wrought-iron gates at the corner of the walled consulate compound and blew...