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...Victims' families are lobbying for the appointment of former New Hampshire Republican Senator Warren Rudman to head the inquiry, but the White House is unlikely to tap him. Sources tell TIME that one of the Administration's top choices to replace Kissinger is another Republican veteran, David M. Abshire, ambassador to nato during the Reagan years. The White House, taken aback by Kissinger's abdication, has to make sure this choice sticks. --By Romesh Ratnesar, Matthew Cooper and Michael Weisskopf
...consuming lifelong passion. With Red Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang proved himself in the art houses abroad. But many mainland critics remained unimpressed, accusing him of "exoticizing" the nation's feudal past and poverty-stricken countryside for foreigners. They felt he should play cultural ambassador, using his camera to burnish China's overseas image. Chinese audiences share this ambivalence. Younger moviegoers have an almost universal description of why they dislike Zhang's fixation on the past and on the countryside: "The films are really just too far away from us," says Zhang's 25-year...
...entire week to pay for this indulgence. Not only have Bolivians lost its premier provider of Americana, but McDonald’s just lost its highest-elevation branch (in La Paz). And the biggest loser in all of this is the USA, which just lost its greatest ambassador...
...miles southeast, in the city of Lahore, anyone with a craving for greasy food and a desire to meet America’s real ambassador can just waltz right into one of his six restaurants. Cast in larger-than-life statutes, Ronald sits in the lotus position atop four of Lahore’s six McDonald’s. With his bushy hair and red combat boots, the enormous clown confidently greets all those below...
...Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan takes White House hospitality for granted. For 30 years, the Cohiba-chomping Bandar has traded on his personal charm and his country's oil wealth to seduce Presidents and preserve his nation's alliance with the U.S. But when National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice met Bandar at the White House last Tuesday, the ambassador had reason to be concerned. Revelations that charitable donations by Bandar's wife Princess Haifa al-Faisal were sent to associates of two Sept. 11 hijackers had some Congressmen questioning Saudi Arabia's commitment...