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...Nyunt traveled frequently, and appeared to accept that Burma needed to reduce its diplomatic isolation to avoid economic collapse. He was admired abroad for granting regional autonomy to the armed rebel groups that live along Burma's borders with its neighbors?deals that might now unravel. "China will be furious," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security and defense analyst at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "They want stability along their borders, no matter what the cost. But Than Shwe has shown he doesn't care much about stability, just regime survival." India's porous border with Burma, which is exploited by insurgents...
Just what got the Cheneys so furious with Kerry was not clear. Lynne Cheney denounced Kerry in personal terms rarely deployed in American politics, let alone by a candidate's spouse, saying she could only conclude "this is not a good man." Mary, 35, has long avoided attention. "She doesn't like to have the limelight on her," says a friend. The younger Cheney daughter is a Westerner through and through who loves snowboarding and fishing (like her dad) and, until the 2004 race began, lived outside Denver with her longtime partner Heather Poe. But her being gay has long...
...family could hardly expect to protect Mary's privacy once she began running her father's operations at the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign last year. A shrewd problem solver, she is considered one of his closest political advisers. Still, some conservatives were furious that Kerry went out of his way to mention Mary's lesbianism because they saw it as a way to embarrass the Republican ticket or alienate it from its evangelical base. It was an "attempt to suppress a certain segment of Christian votes," says Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate and a leading advocate...
...biographer of Pope John Paul II, cited his Roman Catholic faith and said he considered homosexuality a "sin" and marriage an institution intended to give women "the right to have children and the protection of a man." What happened next was anything but routine. Many committee members were furious at what they considered such blatantly discriminatory views from a man who would be tasked with defending sexual equality, and demanded that the Commission's President - designate, José Manuel Durão Barroso, either sack Buttiglione or move him to another post. Barroso didn't budge. Unless a compromise...
Amid the alliterative sentences and one phrase paragraphs characteristic of Ellroy’s furious style are photographs of L.A. personalities and other people who had an influence on Ellroy’s life. Ellroy was particularly enthusiastic to point out the inclusion of Kaya Christian, November 1967 Playboy Playmate of the month...