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...Right now, the junta needs all the friends it can get. The 60th birthday over a week ago of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, has again put the spotlight on the repression practiced by the regime. Recent bomb attacks by unknown perpetrators in Rangoon and Mandalay have killed and injured scores of people. Unprecedented pressure exerted by other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations means Burma is unlikely to take its turn chairing ASEAN in mid-2006. The purge of Prime Minister and intelligence chief Khin Nyunt last October...
...drawing room at Sandringham, Queen Elizabeth was unusually open and relaxed. No wonder, since the man behind the camera was her shutterbug son Prince Andrew. The Queen was so pleased with the results that Andrew, 26, was chosen as the official photographer for his mother's 60th birthday, the celebration of which began last week with a service in St. George's Chapel at Windsor. After a walkabout in the town, the Queen repaired to Windsor Castle for lunch, then drove to Buckingham Palace to watch 6,000 schoolchildren sing "Happy Birthday" and wave some 120,000 daffodils. Then...
...remembered that her first recipe, in 1964, was a guide to making your own bath salts. Since then, she fretted, she has used up all the recipes she can create as well as plagiarize. Nonetheless, she said, "I would hate to give this newspaper up. I had a birthday Saturday. I was 79. I've had two open-heart surgeries. I'm not about to stop doing anything I like...
Announcing his candidacy on Lincoln's birthday, William Lucas told Michigan voters, "It is within our grasp to make history." Although he trails badly in the polls, Lucas' race has attracted national attention: he is the first black Republican ever to run for Governor. A former FBI agent, the soft-spoken and methodical Lucas was a Democrat when elected sheriff and then executive of Wayne County, which includes Detroit. He drew praise and criticism alike for cutting the county debt by laying off workers and selling a financially hemorrhaging public hospital. An ardent supporter of Ronald Reagan's, he switched...
...heir apparent Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., 35, will put his own team into place. But that may not happen immediately, and at 56, Frankel could still enjoy a longer tenure than a two-term U.S. President. Meanwhile, Times staffers will have to start memorizing a new date. Frankel's birthday is April 3. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Bonnie Angelo and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York