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...from where Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of The Pianist, hid out after the 1944 uprising (the area is now a busy shopping district). The Rialto is lavishly outfitted, with black-and-white Art Deco furnishings from Warsaw's heyday in the 1920s. Its elevator is modeled on an Orient Express compartment, with red leather seating. There are only 45 rooms, and no two have the same design. --By Andrew Purvis and Tadeusz Kucharsk/Warsaw
...constituency extends far beyond Washington. According to one recent poll, 83% of Americans trust Blair to do the right thing regarding world affairs, putting him above all other world leaders - including Bush, who comes second. At home in the U.K., a recent poll showed only 31% of Britons still express trust in their Prime Minister. But in the U.S. Blair plays to both camps. For conservatives, he is the ultimate ally. Liberals cling to Blair as the only one who can temper Bush's starchy unilateralism and keep America from piling up enemies around the world. Comparing the country...
...American constituency extends far beyond Washington. According to one recent poll, 83% of Americans trust Blair to do the right thing regarding world affairs, putting him above all other world leaders - including Bush, who comes second. In the U.K. a recent poll showed only 31% of Britons still express trust in their Prime Minister. But in the U.S. Blair plays to both camps. For conservatives, he is the ultimate ally, standing with the President against terrorists and the weak-willed. Liberals cling to Blair as the only one who can temper Bush's starchy unilateralism and keep America from piling...
Still, MoveOn can't be dismissed so easily. The organization will eventually get behind one candidate and expects to spend between $5 million and $10 million, money that any Democratic candidate would find useful in the face of Bush's fund-raising express. "MoveOn is poised to become the Christian Coalition of the left," says Michael Cornfield, a professor at George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet. "It's the power base of the Democratic Party right...
...Orient Express: Across Russia with Kim Jong Il (2002) By: Konstantin Pulikovsky, a Russian-government official who rode with Kim on a 2001 rail journey to Moscow (Kim is afraid of flying) Dirt: Pulikovsky said Kim's luxurious private train was stocked with fresh lobsters, roast donkey and comely female conductors