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...Locke and his family had to get rabies shots after coming across several bats - including one above his baby's crib - in the Governor's Mansion...
While most of the development is still to get under way, a clutch of Casco cafés, hotels and cultural sites have already had their makeovers. The most eye-catching is the Canal House Hotel (www.canalhousepanama.com), an elegantly renovated late 19th century mansion where actor Daniel Craig stayed during the three-month Bond shoot. The hotel's three guest rooms are named after the Canal's massive locks - Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun - and each has a wrought-iron balcony with views of the Casco's Cathedral Plaza and surrounding red-tiled roofs and cobblestone alleyways...
...Aabpara market swiftly pulled down their shutters and fled the area. The youths torched car tires and attacked cars bearing government license plates. Parts of Lahore, the second largest city and capital of Punjab, were brought to a standstill for hours as Sharif supporters gathered outside the governor's mansion to shout defiant slogans and tear down People's Party posters. The two main shopping areas, Liberty and Anarkali, were shut down, as were a number of roads and bridges. Gunfire has been heard in parts of Rawalpindi, where some Sharif supporters have trashed posters commemorating Bhutto. Meanwhile, the country...
...This is an era of limits," Jerry Brown recently told TIME, reprising a theme he sounded more than 30 years ago, when the state first put him in the governor's mansion in the aftermath of Watergate and during the last throes of the Vietnam War. "There is not a lot of room for political maneuvering. The age of dividing up the easy surpluses is over. We've been on a borrowing binge, both in the private and public sector, and we're going to have to enter a time of belt-tightening." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...Afghan government seems largely unwilling to curtail the power of the warlords, whose wealth and influence have only increased in the new Afghanistan. These days, Dostum strides across the marble-inlay floors of his new mansion--a pink, three-tiered wedding cake of a house. The foyer boasts a massive aquarium stocked with exotic fish, next to a life-size portrait of Dostum standing beside U.S. General Tommy Franks. During a visit by TIME, workmen were putting the final touches on an immense gold-painted crown that spans the compound's entry gate. The crown was modeled on that...