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...York) in the same house as his maternal grandfather, U Thant, the onetime small-town Burmese headmaster who became the U.N.'s third Secretary-General. The author's first trip to Burma came in 1974 when, just 8 years old, he returned to help bury his grandfather. That visit set off confrontations in the streets between rebellious students calling for a state funeral and the hard-line government eager to downplay the event-eerily prefiguring the violence of 1988. But Thant was also educated at Harvard and Cambridge, and has worked on U.N. peacekeeping operations in Phnom Penh and Sarajevo...
Bartley said he was hesitant to add the Massachusetts governor, but Gates argued for Patrick’s placement on the menu on a visit to the restaurant this weekend. According to Bartley, he jokingly told Gates that there were already “enough brothers on the menu...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepares to visit the Middle East as early as next week, U.S. officials are predicting that an opportunity may be opening to revive the long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Her spokesman, Sean McCormack, declined to last weekend to offer specifics on why such an opportunity may now present itself, but plainly, the conditions for peace can't be divorced from the state of Palestinian internal politics - and the escalating confrontation, if not a brewing civil war, between the Fatah movement of President Abbas and Hamas, the democratically elected governing party...
...Asian cities are noisy but few approach the sprawling mega-cities of South Asia - Bombay, Dhaka, Delhi - for sheer racket. It seems almost compulsory in south Asia to use your horn constantly. On a recent visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh, I noticed that the taxi driver I hired had worn smooth a spot on his steering wheel where his right thumb rested and pressed the horn incessantly as he weaved through traffic. In India and Bangladesh, turn signals and rear mirrors are for sissies. Drivers are responsible for what's ahead of them, not what's behind. Many studiously ignore vehicles...
...older Berliners, the best part of the new museum may be its location: the heart of what was East Berlin, next to the famous Brandenburg Gate. An area that was once ringed by razor wire and overlooked by watchtowers, it's now a place that you can visit whenever you choose. tel: (49-30) 20 65 35 70; thekennedys.de