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...When I landed in Zimbabwe, he was front-page news in every newspaper, railing against the West, which could "go hang" for plotting "monkey business" against his country, and members of the opposition, who "will get bashed." A few weeks earlier, I caught a television interview on his 83rd birthday. "Some people say I am a dictator," he said at his 25-bedroom villa in the capital, Harare, complete with Italian-marble bathrooms and roof tiles from Shanghai. "My own people say I am handsome...
...Cave is celebrating her daughter's 23rd birthday by lobbying Texas legislators and hoping that by the time an alleged accomplice goes on trial this summer, the counseling program will be in place. "Jennifer is gone, but the life she had remains," Cave says. "I tried to give everything in my heart to those jurors, and it would be a travesty if we don't take care of them. But as they say, tragedy is often the catalyst for change...
...emotions that it almost meant nothing at all. Since the love we distill for each beloved conforms to such a specific, rarefied recipe ... you really needed as many different words for the feeling as there were people whom you cared for in your life.' --PAGE 240 OF the post- birthday world BY LIONEL SHRIVER...
Shortly after his 50th birthday, Einstein also gave a remarkable interview in which he was more revealing than he had ever been about his religious sensibility. It was with George Sylvester Viereck, who had been born in Germany, moved to America as a child and then spent his life writing gaudily erotic poetry, interviewing great men and expressing his complex love for his fatherland. Einstein assumed Viereck was Jewish. In fact, Viereck proudly traced his lineage to the family of the Kaiser, and he would later become a Nazi sympathizer who was jailed in America during World...
...economic profits and tougher diplomacy, decisive action now is not just about seducing a specific, key constituency for the EU future, but also about proving the organization’s ideological relevance for the future. That is a crucial step toward realizing the last line of the EU 50th birthday declaration: Britons included, and despite the English Channel, “Europe is our common future...