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Indeed, Annenberg was the place to be on the night before Halloween. The scene was an eclectic mix of vanilla cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes, candy apples, and candy corn. In addition, freshmen had come dressed as everything from attention-hungry male prostitutes to desperately attention-hungry female strippers—and in between, some good, wholesome costumes as well, all ready to compete for Halloween glory...
...those with family on the island. The number of those travelers is expected to hit 200,000 this year, says Armando Garcia, president of Mar Azul Charters in Miami. That would be double the annual flow since 2004, when then President George W. Bush put the restrictions in place. If the travel ban were lifted altogether, recent studies suggest some 3 million Americans would visit Cuba each year. It's uncertain whether they would be effective ambassadors. But after almost a half-century of failed policy, most Cuban Americans have decided that letting Americans travel to Cuba would be more...
...visit is the second meeting between the nations' diplomats since U.S. President Barack Obama announced in September that his Administration would pursue a policy of engaging the generals who rule the country rather than rebuffing them. The first meeting took place several weeks ago in New York City. Burma has been under military rule since 1962, and since the bloody suppression of a democracy uprising in 1988, the U.S. has incrementally reduced contacts with the regime and increased sanctions against it for its record of violating human rights and quashing democracy. Larry Dinger, the chargé d'affaires...
...since 1990, when it lost to Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, by a landslide and then ignored the results. Suu Kyi has been barred from participating in the upcoming poll, and unless she is pardoned, she will still be under house arrest when it takes place. Thein Sein recently told Southeast Asian diplomats that the terms of her imprisonment could be eased if she "behaved." (See the world's top 10 contested elections...
...comes the fun part for E.U. watchers and anyone interested in political intrigue: Who will get the top jobs in Brussels now that the big reform treaty is in place? Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Prime Minister of Sweden, which currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, has already begun a round of telephone calls to draw up a shortlist of candidates for the new E.U. president and foreign policy chief positions. An emergency summit could be held as early as next week to decide. (See ten things to do in Sweden...