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Kentuckians have come to expect outrageous statements from Bunning. When the Ohio River flooded parts of Louisville in 1997, Bunning, then a state representatitve from Northern Kentucky, blamed the devastation on the city's failure to raise its flood walls, only to have to apologize when the storm-weary city leaders pointed out that the walls had been up for days. In 2004, he claimed, without any support, that an opponent's staffer had beaten his wife and he at a political event; during that same campaign he reminded voters he had run before with George Bush on the ticket...
...impact of pop culture on foreign policy. She said she plans to invite an “interesting mix of people,” including entertainers, politicians, and diplomats. As under secretary, Dobriansky was also the coordinator for Tibetan issues and the president’s special envoy on Northern Ireland. She will be at the Belfer Center as senior fellow until June...
Florida's Republicans could use more constituents. Last November, Barack Obama, who won a surprising 57% of the state's Latino vote, became the first northern Democrat to win Florida in a presidential election in 64 years. Cuban-American leaders could use more help in their shrinking corner - especially after a new Florida International University (FIU) poll showed that, for the first time, a majority of Miami Cubans oppose continuing the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Havana. And so the more than 150,000 Venezuelans now living in South Florida - a third of whom have arrived since...
Beginning in the late 1980s, many of Thailand's elephants were decommissioned from laboring as timber haulers. So what's a retired pachyderm to do but play a little polo? From March 23 to 29, the Anantara luxury resort in northern Thailand's Golden Triangle will host the annual King's Cup, a matchup in which elephants replace the more traditional horses. Ten teams fielding players from around a dozen countries will be competing trunk to trunk. In case you're wondering, the tournament is sanctioned by the World Elephant Polo Association, which set game regulations...
...That's not as straightforward as it sounds. Habits are influenced by economics - poorer Scots drink more - and the country's bracing northern climate. Northern peoples tend to drink without food, says Paul Waterson, chief executive of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, which represents pubs, hotels, clubs and other licensees. "Sticking some tables and chairs outside a Scottish pub doesn't mean you'll get southern European drinking." He supports the government's new initiative but adds, "You can't change a culture by law." That's a sobering thought indeed for Scottish legislators...