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Delegates to this week's "Earth Dialogues" forum will be meeting at the Palais des Congrès, part of Lyons' new Cité Internationale complex, designed by Renzo Piano. Cité Internationale also includes a new Contemporary Art Museum and is one of the more recent additions to the city's 2,000-year...
...from the top. Hop aboard the funicular, locally known as la ficelle (the string) to Fourvière, once the Gallic town of Lugdunum that was the capital of Roman Gaul. From the terrace of the 19th century Notre Dame basilica, on the site of the old Roman Forum, the view follows the city's progress, from the medieval and Renaissance Vieux Lyons on the banks of the Saône to the narrow 17th and 18th century Presqu'île, or peninsula, between the Saône and the Rhône. On the left is the smaller hill...
...perhaps his patience with Mugabe is wearing thin. At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in New York two weeks ago, Mbeki pointedly called for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. His special economic adviser at the meeting, Wiseman Nkuhlu, was even more direct: neither the South African government nor the Southern African Development Commmunity (SADC), of which Zimbabwe is a member, would recognize the Mugabe government if the presidential election is not free and fair, said Nkuhlu...
...application before the court of Arbitration for Sport, a non-Olympic body, asking the court to hear its request for a second gold medal and to compel the pairs judges to testify. The court agreed to hear the case on Friday. That threatened to carry the dispute to a forum beyond the control of the committee and the I.S.U. On Friday morning the nine-member I.O.C. board ratified the I.S.U. plan by a 7-1 vote. China opposed it; Russia abstained...
...light and frolicsome title is misleading. Though the setting is a picturesque, upscale New England country house, Fefu’s get together with seven women to discuss a presentation supporting primary school education for the disadvantaged turns into a complex forum in which the women speculate about the meaning of womanhood...