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...activists, journalists and writers. For the movement, Ebadi's award is an infusion of hope. But the symbolism is even more potent. Ebadi is the first Muslim woman to receive the Peace Prize, and the honor has stirred pride and joy in millions of others from Rabat to Kuala Lumpur. Ebadi was in Paris when the award was announced in October, and when she returned to Tehran, thousands of Iranians, mainly women, turned out at the airport to welcome her home with tears, songs and carnations. "I don't have the same courage as Mrs. Ebadi," says Zahra...
...artist? In Carey's nimble revision of the Malley episode, we enter through Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry magazine, who is thinking back on a trip she made to Malaysia in 1972 in the company of John Slater, a goatish, prevaricating but celebrated poet. In Kuala Lumpur she stumbles upon Christopher Chubb, a disheveled Australian expatriate who has a bike-repair shop but also reads Rilke. Learning that Wode-Douglass is an editor, he tantalizes her, not with his own work but with a brilliant page by a "Bob McCorkle" and the promise of more...
...operator from the government.) Just 10 days before Mahathir resigned in October, a consortium led by Syed Mokhtar was awarded a $3.8 billion contract to build a railroad from the Thai border to Singapore. Abdullah now says negotiations were not completed. Edmund Terence Gomez, a political scientist at Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya, says that with a general election probably only months away, Abdullah "will look good in showing that he is against the appearances of cronyism...
...KUALA LUMPUR: Teens make for the Mid Valley Megamall, tel: (60-3) 2938 3333. Asia's largest cineplex and gym are among the lures...
...SWORN IN. ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, 63, as Malaysia's fifth prime minister; by King Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra; at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur. The Mr. Nice Guy of Malaysian politics, Abdullah succeeds combative predecessor Mahathir Mohamad, 77, who retired after 22 years at the country's helm. Abdullah fell out with Mahathir in 1988 when he joined a group that unsuccessfully challenged the Prime Minister's leadership of the ruling party. In 1991 the rift was healed when Mahathir named him Foreign Minister...