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...odds with Washington, Assad's regime has sometimes allowed militants to get too close to the U.S. embassy. During an anti-American demonstration in 2000, security forces looked the other way as a mob stormed the grounds and ransacked the American mission. Amid last winter's protests over Danish cartoons viewed as mocking the Prophet Mohammed, demonstrators burned the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus...
...wish good luck to anyone who is learning Mandarin. Even after several years spent mastering the language, you will be able to communicate well with only people from Beijing. Linguistically, China is complicated and diverse, like Europe. Each province has a major dialect and many subdialects. Imagine Dutch, Danish, English, Welsh, Spanish and Catalan, all being spoken in the same country! For communicating outside northern China, Mandarin is functional only if the natives feel they would benefit from speaking with you. Kwok Kian Cheng Singapore...
WHEELIE GOOD TIES Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah of Jordan and British PM Tony Blair have visited Camp David, but Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen got to pedal with the Prez in June. A buff Bush joked that he presumed his guest wouldn't "ride me into the ground...
...enough of Jacob Jensen's timepieces, jewelry and eyewear, then the famous Danish designer himself will come to your door - figuratively speaking. His cordless doorbell, which recently won a Plus[an error occurred while processing this directive] X Award (the top European prize for gadget design), features a range of tones, among them a recording of Jensen knocking on a wooden door...
...legitimate industry. Armed with just good wishes and some telegrams from family and friends, we spent a riotous few days in the luxury of the Beverly Wilshire, being taken to lunch by Billy Wilder, joking with Pedro Almodóvar and his transgendered entourage, gate-crashing Spanish and Danish parties, not really minding that we were neglected by our own country. When it came time for our award, Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen tripped and stuttered through the foreign names. As Jackie and Candy announced the winner in another miasma of mispronunciation, Sooni leaned across and said, "India is still...