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...vote is anything to go by, the process of choosing South Africa's next President is set to one of the loudest and most open elections in African history. The race to succeed President Thabo Mbeki when his second term ends in 2009 has divided the ANC: One camp is led by Mbeki himself, who is constitutionally barred from a third term - but is still considering whether to find a way to run again, or to throw his weight behind a designated successor. Mbeki certainly hopes to flout the ambitions of his estranged former deputy Jacob Zuma. Mbeki sacked...
After he and his boyfriend are arrested and deported to a concentration camp during the Holocaust, the main character of “Bent” says one line over and over: “This can’t be happening...
...Republic of Dreams” was largely inspired by the tragic resemblance Klein noticed between concentration camp prisoners who died in the Holocaust and Schulz’s soulful wax mannequin etchings...
...could read the Bush Administration's choice of Maryland for next month's Middle East peace conference as a good omen. Jimmy Carter's Camp David talks in 1978 produced the historic peace deal between Israel and Egypt. On the other hand, Bill Clinton's gathering at the presidential retreat in 2000 broke down in failure and triggered Israeli-Palestinian warfare. Little wonder that leaders from the region are approaching the latest Maryland summit - planned for Annapolis this time rather than history-burdened Camp David - with caution and skepticism...
...perhaps even the future of the relationship between the Arab-Islamic world and the Western world." Such dire warnings may be pre-conference jockeying, but perhaps wisdom to take to heart, considering the tumultuous events - the second intifadah - that followed the collapse of peace hopes seven autumns ago in Camp David. Who knows what Annapolis will deliver...