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...pain THE FRENCH BAKERY CAFE...
Outside, Hanoi's narrow tree-lined streets are filled with bicycles and pedicabs, for private cars are a rarity in the city. In the busy market area, customers crowd into a tiny but popular cafe that serves white coffee with a whipped raw egg to help ward off the pervasive dampness of the rainy season. Around the corner on Hang Gai Street, shoppers wander past privately owned clothing and novelty shops that are little more than window fronts. Nevertheless, they are the busiest stores in Hanoi. One of them is owned by Dao Thi Huan, 71, a retired government worker...
That was 1971. Last month Cloud, 53, now Washington bureau chief, returned to Cambodia for the first time in 18 years. He sought out old friends and sources, including the jovial, rotund chef who used to serve a legendary souffle Grand Marnier in Phnom Penh's Cafe de Paris. Today the Cambodian capital's French restaurants are gone, but the chef survived the brutal Khmer Rouge years and has opened a far more modest Cambodian eatery where he still whips up a souffle. Says Cloud: "While it's only a pale imitation of the one he used to make...
...democratic odyssey of Mejstrik, who spent time in Tiananmen Square last May, began when he formed a national student network of college newspapers; Mejstrik, a third-year student at DAMU, the Academy of Theatrical Arts, was the editor of a student newspaper called Cafe...
...Cafe stood for freedom of expression. What the government did was destroy our meeting places-the cafe," Mejstrik said. The publication "is named Cafe because I wanted it to be a forum where Western democratic ideas could be discussed...