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...Yugoslav immigrant in her 20s, who has donned a short skirt and fur jacket merely to see what trouble she can stir. She invites him to her dingy basement apartment for coffee and starts telling him about her life as the daughter of a communist partisan. They forge a friendship, with Chris visiting Roza often to listen to her tales of the mundane (pets, first loves and summer camp) and the sensational - war, incest and rape. "I don't know why I am telling you all this," says Roza. "It's not important, it's just memories...
...admiration of some of Europe's prominent conservatives and critics of Muslim immigration. He has been compared to Hirsan Ali, herself an avowed atheist who long ago renounced her faith, and now divides her time between Europe and the United States. Allam also struck up a friendship with Oriana Fallaci, the late Italian journalist and writer, who in recent years wrote anti-Muslim screeds and warned against Europe becoming "Eurabia." Fallaci, a Catholic by birth, was a non-believer through her adult life, though reportedly was exploring questions of faith as she battled terminal cancer. In 2005, she met privately...
...don’t expect that everyone would memorize our fight song or sport more Crimson-colored gear and we’ll suddenly have the fun and friendship of a Big Ten school. But I do expect we could celebrate genuinely our friends’, peers’, and school’s accomplishments, rather than mask deep cynicism about crowded housing and the Core with beer and circuses...
...past, with the older man once fulsomely comparing the 41-year-old Briton to John F. Kennedy. McCain was a star speaker at the Conservatives' 2006 annual conference in the seaside resort town of Bournemouth. So despite the senator's carefully calibrated responses to questions about this friendship while still within earshot of the British Prime Minister, McCain departed Downing Street and hurried straight to a firm double handshake with Cameron in the shadow of Big Ben followed by a discussion covering a similar palette of subjects to the earlier meeting with Brown. After that, McCain fitted in a Republican...
...time he was through, McCain had praised Sarkozy's leadership in environmental issues, pushing the harder international line against Iran's nuclear ambitions, and fighting terrorism. McCain called Sarkozy a "man of enormous energy" who has been central to bringing Franco-American relations into "an era of friendship and cooperation...