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...Good Heart or a Good Angle? Bob Geldof's piece about President George W. Bush's impact on Africa revealed that my heroes can be fallible [March 3]. I would have expected a more nuanced perspective from Geldof, a man who has worked so hard on the African continent. Sure, the Bush Administration has poured millions of dollars into Africa, and that's certainly laudable. However, it sounds naive of Geldof to attribute this to Bush's desire to live up to the American ideal of "the Good, the Fair and the Just." Though Geldof pointed out that China...
...Power of Communication Tim Padgett's article "Cuba's Chance" made it abundantly clear that both Cuba and the U.S. have the opportunity to terminate 46 years of trade embargo and name-calling [March 3]. The people of Cuba deserve economic reform and the quality-of-life improvements that will come with it. Cuban Americans should also have the chance to return to the country of their birth whenever they so choose. U.S. leaders should stop shooting from the lip and open a dialogue with Raúl Castro to accelerate a needed change of course for Cuba...
...Babylon," a stunning exhibition at the Louvre in Paris from March 14 to June 2, seeks to re-establish that reality. It deftly illustrates how 2,000 years of Babylonian history gave rise to manifold myths, and how European artists and thinkers responded to and transformed them. Put on jointly by the Louvre, Berlin's Staatliche Museum (where the exhibition moves on June 26) and London's British Museum (where it will open on Nov. 13), it's an unprecedented collaboration that brings together nearly 400 artifacts and pieces of art. Béatrice André-Salvini, a curator...
...it’s easy to forget that there’s a whole world of dining beyond HUDS. Luckily, if you ever want to sample restaurants serve a specially created three-course prix-fixe dinner menu for $33.08, and a lunch menu for $20.08, during Restaurant Week from March 9 to March 16, excluding Saturday, March 15. Since we know you don’t have time to study for midterms and sniff out the best deals, FM found the restaurants that will give you the most bite for your buck...
...election he must hold by June 2010. Blair's waxwork, meanwhile, remains on show, sharing a podium with President Bush. Stung by the rumored snub, Downing Street promptly produced a letter from Nicky Hobbs, the Global Head of External Relations for Madame Tussaud's. It was a request, dated March 3, inviting Brown to "be honored by the Tussaud's team and be amongst the very select group of people that are made into wax figures...