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Then the Troubles came to Northern Ireland, which borders on County Monaghan, and the great and the glamorous stayed away. But in the mid-'90s, the current lady of the manor, the sprightly Samantha (Sammy) Leslie, started to renovate and reinvent this historic estate, gradually transforming it into a stunning country getaway. Last summer she opened a cookery school, where award-winning chef Noel McMeel runs quirky courses like Guilt-Free Cooking, Food & Erotica and Men Only. And earlier this year she launched an exclusive club that offers members unlimited stays, visiting rights to Leslie "outposts" in France and Italy...
...president Thabo Mbeki'sfailure to get re-elected as head of the country's ruling party underlines just how much the leaders who ran the struggle against apartheid under Nelson Mandela have lost touch with their roots. At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC), in the northern city of Polokwane, Jacob Zuma, 65, was elected party chief with a 61%-to-39% split on Dec. 18. Now that Zuma has unseated his bitter rival and former boss, his supporters expect him to complete Mbeki's humiliation by replacing him as head of state in the next...
...iconic bird on one face. It is a fitting national emblem. The loon is found across much of the country, and moves impressively both in air and under water. Its aquatic skills in particular are so good that outside North America, the bird is known as the great northern diver...
Down to earth It didn't last. In November, the great northern diver dipped again, bringing the dollar back below $1 U.S. Today, the major Canadian banks predict commodity prices will fall more as the U.S. economy cools, landing the loonie somewhere around 95 U.S. cents at the end of 2008. But few predict a return to the low, low loonie levels that Canadians knew just one year ago, and that means the structural shift in Canada's economy - with growing differences between sectors and between geographic regions - seems set to continue. "It's almost like a tale...
...Educated and from a well-off northern family, Tram volunteered for battlefield duty on the southern front at the tender age of 24, just after graduating from medical school. She spent three and a half years operating a clandestine field clinic for communist soldiers in the jungles of Quang Ngai, in what was then South Vietnam, and began keeping a diary shortly after arrival. "Operated on one case of appendicitis with inadequate anesthesia," reads her first entry, dated April 8, 1968. "I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once...