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Feeling a little nostalgic for communist-era Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last...
...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Feeling a little nostalgic for communist-era Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia...
...week's wartime inauguration will cost more than $40 million, a record. The grumblers include the District of Columbia, which has been asked to pick up a $17.3 million tab for police, construction and emergency services. Still, a party's a party, and Washington is good at dropping its partisan gripes (and wartime sobriety) to celebrate. A preview: --By Jeninne Lee-St. John and Melissa August...
...always drifts beyond the battlefield. With America’s most recent conflict in Iraq, the situation is no different. Credible facts and figures fall by the wayside as partisan agendas and the sheer inaccuracies of reporting during wartime take hold. It’s no longer enough to compare Fox’s and CNN’s coverage of events to get the real story when neither is covering anything that even resembles the truth. And, in the end, ordinary Americans are left just as foggy-headed about the real state of Iraq as the people disseminating those...
...just as the N.A.A.C.P. has recovered its financial health, it is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS is reviewing the group's tax-exempt status on the grounds that it engaged in partisan politics, a no-no for nonprofits. N.A.A.C.P. chairman Julian Bond, who has accused the Bush Administration of drawing its "most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics," calls the probe an attempt to silence the group. "We're not going to allow any institution to prohibit us from fighting racism," he says...