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...invite them back and decide finally to get serious. "It's time for a radically new approach," wrote the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last November. "I mean something no U.S. Administration has ever dared to do: take down our PEACE-PROCESSING IS US sign and just go home...
...Going home is not yet an option in Afghanistan, though voices in Washington and other capitals have begun to mutter about it. With 30,000 more American troops headed to fight insurgents on the ground, the U.S., rightly or wrongly, is going to be there for a while yet. As in so much of the region, they remain stuck, mired in the history of clumsy foreign interventions...
...Hong Kong's M at the Fringe, was housed in a 97-year-old heritage building originally used as a cold-storage warehouse. (The landlord's decision to repossess the property meant that the restaurant had to vacate the premises in December and begin the search for a new home.) Her two Shanghai establishments - M on the Bund and the Glamour Bar - overlook the Huangpu River from the Nissin Shipping Building, built in 1921. They were the first ventures of their kind to grace the Bund since its prerevolutionary heyday. "At the time, everyone thought I was crazy to open...
...against the government. Rajapaksa's administration is often accused of alleged abuses (including extrajudicial killings of Tamils and journalists), but he was easily re-elected on a wave of postwar euphoria. By neutralizing his erstwhile chief of staff, and also dissolving Parliament ahead of legislative polls, he has pressed home his victory decisively. Unable to mount a credible opposition, Rajapaksa's critics will soon find their horizons curtailed. For Fonseka, they have already been reduced to the walls of a cell...
...Diary of a Mad Black Woman in 2005), top-rated TV series (TBS's House of Payne) and friendship with Oprah Winfrey (with whom he produced the Oscar-nominated film Precious), Perry, 40, may well be the most popular unsung playwright in America. Raised in a poor and abusive home in New Orleans, he staged his first musical play, I Know I've Been Changed, in a former Atlanta church in 1998. Two years later he introduced his most famous character, the wisecracking, God-fearing granny Mabel (Madea) Simmons - played by Perry in a plus-size print dress and silver...