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Hugh died last week while visiting Paris with his wife Anne and daughter Sandy. We offer them and his three other children--Cynthia, Bettina and Edwin--and his seven grandchildren our deepest condolences. Hugh did many things well in journalism, always with modesty and grace, but his most lasting legacy was his ability to see Presidents as people first, vulnerable and human...
...just days after his main opponent was thrown in prison on charges - vehemently denied - of treason and rape. Demonstrations have been temporarily banned. So, Achebe's lament still holds true, then? No. Fixing Africa was never as simple as changing its leaders. And that's why the fall from grace of Museveni and Zenawi may prove a positive thing, even if they hurt their own countries in the short term. It's a reminder, especially to Western countries that invested so much in Africa's new leaders, that strong institutions are far more important than personalities. Good leaders can turn...
...prove that his star quality is more than just Cary Grant looks and a stud's sly aplomb. It is. Here he seduces the viewer into looking closer, to catch the eye glint of skeptical intelligence, the interior burden that a samurai for the CIA bears with weary grace, and for reasons he may have forgotten or never known...
...with 10 people and a dog in a Blazer, and 7 people in a Grand Am. It was a horrible experience to have to leave everything and not even be able to have clothes to put on our bodies, but we made it through it all by the grace of God. Mary Green Canal Winchester, Ohio...
China's leaders finally honored Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party General Secretary who fell from grace in 1987, by commemorating the 90th anniversary of his birth on Friday. The small seminar at Beijing's Great Hall of the People was observed with intense interest by China watchers from around the world. Here...