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...final day of Obama's trip seemed to be a metaphorical stroll from Britain's past to its future. He had breakfast at his hotel with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, now a Middle East envoy for the international community. It was followed by a meeting with the embattled current one, the Labor Party's Gordon Brown. Obama then proceeded to one at the parliament building with the youthful and charismatic David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party opposition. Also at 10 Downing Street while Obama was there: David Lammy, one of two black ministers in Brown's government...
...China. That sentiment cooled some after the May 12 Sichuan earthquake, when patriotic ardor was directed at helping the millions left homeless. But demonstrations during the Games could reignite it, says Victor Cha, director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and author of the forthcoming book Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia. "Protests by foreigners would infuriate the Chinese and only fuel their reactive nationalist view that the West is trying to ruin China's moment in the sun," he says...
Stars is the word, though the leads are actual kids, whom Burstein chose in a sifting process in which she contacted hundreds of Midwestern schools and then 10 possible subjects at Warsaw before she settled on her final four. They get the full treatment, with animated vignettes laying out the dreams of each of the quartet and underscored songs cuing the audience's emotions...
...felt, but it only took me a few days here to memorize and embrace the regular features of my walk to work: the cracks in the tiled sidewalk, the passing of the 201 bus that no one ever rides, the house with the bright blue door just before the final street crossing. They were all new to me, but of course they had always been waiting here. Not for me, though. Just waiting...
...also met with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Berlin mayor Kalsu Wowereit, a strong Obama supporter who presented him with a statue of a bear, the city's symbol. On Friday, Obama continues his foreign trip with a stop in Paris, before embarking on a final leg to Britain...