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...hard to understand why the tourists aren't coming. "The people were cutting each other's heads off," Roy, a tour guide, says, running his finger across his neck. "They threw the heads away like plastic." And though the Christian-Muslim riots were 21 months ago, tales of beheadings tend to stick in the mind. Besides, there have been problems since, including a fight between rival villages in which nine people died. And anyway, this is Indonesia, sick man of Asia, viewed as primed to explode in 1,000 different ethnic and religious directions. Seriously, why holiday in Lombok...
Felipe and Adianes met seven years ago, when they worked together after school at Roy Rogers. They were still working together, at Fuji Bank's offices in the World Trade Center's south tower. They rode the bus together each morning. She would go to the 82nd floor, where she supervised the payroll; he went one floor below, to run the mailroom. One floor can make all the difference...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Roy J. Glauber planned to fly from Dusseldorf, Germany to Boston Tuesday in time to interview for Freshman Seminar 30, “Science and Technology,” on Wednesday, but has been trapped at London’s Heathrow Airport instead...
...college at age 15 and eventually became a Soviet expert in the White House of Bush I--finding time along the way to become an accomplished pianist, ice skater and sports buff. Her hard-line positions have surprised even seasoned alumni of Republican administrations. J. Stapleton Roy, Bush Sr.'s ambassador to China, says Rice is "prone to the naive view that we are strong and they are weak and we should ruthlessly exploit that." Rice, like her boss, has a rebellious streak...
...Pentagon friends say Powell was initially "blown off course" by Bush's basic principle of anything-but-Clinton. "If Clinton was pushing hard for it," says J. Stapleton Roy, ambassador to China for Bush Sr., "their instinct was to pull way back." But every Administration learns?often the hard way?that foreign policy inevitably snaps back from campaign rhetoric to the well-plowed tracks of enduring interests. And it was Powell who bore the brunt of the President's education...