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...toothpaste. She and her 28-year-old fiancé had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg, which they had just withdrawn from the bank. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says, as she stands inside her store wearing a puffy orange jacket to ward off the chill. "No one else in the same building made it out, but somehow I survived." Luo walked five days with an injured foot and no shoes, braving runaway boulders and mudslides...
...seem to have hit the ground running. Well, time in opposition focuses the mind. Also, the international financial crisis is weighing not only on New Zealanders' minds but on the mind of every leader who's been calling me. It would have been unacceptable for New Zealand not to be represented at the APEC summit...
...Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice came over to New Zealand [in July] and indicated that New Zealand was an ally. Now, while I don't think she meant "ally" in the traditional sense of the word, it was another clear example of the thawing of the relationship. Top of mind, from our point of view, is a New Zealand - U.S. free-trade agreement. Now, there are a lot of factors there, not least being whether President-elect Obama is willing to entertain that idea...
...much for the courtship. The intimidation of Europe's East - the Baltics, Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic - is also doing fine. Ukraine and the Baltics, after all, were once part of the Soviet Union, and the others were satrapies until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Never mind that all of them, with the exception of Ukraine, are now firmly embedded in E.U. and NATO; for Russia they are either the "near abroad" or what the tsars used to call Russia's "sphere of influence...
...Things Fall Apart”, did you have any idea that it would have the impact that it has?Achebe: No, it was impossible to have any such view because there was nothing to base it on. It had not been done before, exactly what I had a mind to do, so, I was hoping it would work, but that was about all. In other words, I wouldn’t have committed suicide if at the end of it they said “Well, this was not good enough to publish.” I would have been...