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...British political magazine, one Russian friend phoned to declare how happy she was that I would now start doing something worthwhile with my life, like making money. Russians, Chinese and others utter a single word when such a viewpoint is challenged: Gorbachev. Remember, they ask, how the last Soviet leader tried to open up political life before sorting out the economy? The argument is about sequencing: What should come first...
...daughter seeking her father's attention faces steep competition when he's also the leader of the free world. Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice smoked on the White House roof, buried a voodoo doll of the incoming First Lady under the White House lawn, jumped fully clothed into a cruise-ship pool - and persuaded a Congressman to follow. "I can either run the country or I can control Alice," Roosevelt once said. "I cannot possibly do both...
...city parks, and most new facilities - including the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, scheduled for the South Side's Washington Park - would be temporary, a strategy intended to avert the Olympics' worst legacy, expensive venues that sit idle for years. And then there's the Obama factor: the leader of the free world calls Chicago home and will personally travel to Copenhagen to pitch the IOC. (See 100 Olympic athletes to watch...
...question is, Will he be invited back? Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi used his first U.N. General Assembly appearance to deliver a rambling 100-min. tirade in which he dubbed the Security Council a "terror council," suggested Israel was behind John F. Kennedy's assassination, warned of a "fish flu" and plugged his website...
Deposed President Manuel Zelaya stole back into Honduras Sept. 21 and holed up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, bringing to a head the political crisis that has engulfed the country since his June ouster. Zelaya, whom the international community still considers Honduras' legitimate leader, called for talks with the new government, as thousands of his supporters camped outside the embassy and clashed with police...