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...They faced plenty of obstacles: the rude public merriment at their pairing; all the misery the Vatican-cowed Italian government tried to bring to their joint political, financial and personal life; the stories of his infidelities and of the movie stars (Cary Grant, Peter Sellers) utterly smitten by her allure. Yet Ponti and Loren persevered, becoming a metaphor for the lasting attraction of opposites...
...that China made when one of its soldiers was killed by an Israeli air strike on a U.N. post in Lebanon last summer, there are only 1,400 Chinese troops serving in all U.N. peacekeeping missions worldwide.) "Is China playing a positive role in developing democracy [in Africa]?" asks Peter Draper of the South African Institute of International Affairs. "Largely not." Human Rights Watch goes further: China's policies in Africa, it claimed during the Beijing summit, have "propped up some of the continents' worst human-rights abusers...
...committee members have traveled coast-to-coast to solicit alumni opinion, consulted with student and faculty advisory committees, and cast a wide net for candidates—the process of appointing Lowell “was just a formality,” according to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and Its Presidents...
...ethics office, staffed by former judges and former members of Congress from both parties, that looks into violations of rules by members. They also want to require lawmakers to pay the full cost for flights they take on corporate jets. As part of his hearings, Biden will bring in Peter Galbraith, a foreign policy expert who backs Biden's preferred strategy in Iraq, dividing the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd regions. For his part, Obama is looking for ways to stop Bush from increasing troops in Iraq, such as inserting a provision in the bill that funds ongoing military...
...shake-up of the German beer industry in the 1980s that inspired Bionade's inventor, Dieter Leipold, then master brewer at Ostheim's Privatbrauerei Peter, to quest for a new quaff. With younger German consumers increasingly choosing imports like Corona and Miller Lite over local beers, Leipold worried about the brewery's future. And there was more at stake than just business: it was family. He lived with the brewery's present owner, Sigrid Peter, now his wife, and acted as stepfather to her sons, Peter and Stephan Kowalsky...