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...Europe, September 11 was a moment; for us, it was a change of thinking. I vowed to the American people I would do everything I could to defend our people, and will." The retort was part of the confident, nondefensive approach Bush took during 44 hours in Vienna and Budapest. "Let me talk about Guantánamo," he said early in one meeting, not waiting for his hosts to bring up the unpleasant subject of the military detention center. (It's a subject that, because of the Supreme Court ruling, is still likely to be a staple of the questions...
...Born in Budapest to a Hungarian mother partly of Jewish extraction, and a Sikh father, Sher-Gil studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she absorbed influences from Gaugin to contemporary Hungarian art. At age 21, she settled in India, which had seen nothing like her. Most men who met her became infatuated; her numerous lovers included British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, and perhaps even Jawaharlal Nehru, India's future prime minister. Rumors grew furiously but Sher-Gil doesn't seem to have cared; her self-portraits, which, like her nude studies of women, are icons of Indian...
...confident as he had in going after war-weary Democrats recently in the Rose Garden. His explanation reflected the unapologetic, even defiant mien he has struck during a 44-hour swing through Europe that began in Vienna on Tuesday night and will end when he flies out of Budapest on Thursday night...
...Earlier, the President had said, "I call him, Wolfgang; he calls me, George W." Certainly, now he also is proud to call him "friend." Bush, greeted on his way into Budapest by crowds of shirtless men lining the roadways, was to conclude his trip with a hilltop ode to democracy marking the 50th anniversary of Hungary's unsuccessful 1956 uprising against Communist rule. His planned remarks, bolstering the philosophical case for his "freedom agenda," made a subtle but unmistakable allusion to Iraq by suggesting that once a democracy is established, that sets an example and others will follow...
...cried a Western observer, "oh my God." In a will written "before closing my eyes to Buddha," Quang Duc said: "I have the honor of presenting my words to President Diem, asking him to be kind and tolerant toward his people and to enforce a policy of religious equality." Budapest, Hungary Nov. 5, 1956 It began like a carnival day. Thousands of people thronged Budapest's old cobblestoned streets wearing red, white and green boutonnieres, tossing red, white and green ribbons into passing cars. Then gradually the crowd began to march. A scared communist official told an American businessman...