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...connection to Aung San Suu Kyi - the democracy icon known in Burma simply as the Lady, who in August was sentenced to 11/2 years of house arrest - that had led me to the Shwe Zedi monastery in the first place. Located in the crumbling Indian Ocean port of Sittwe, Shwe Zedi was the monastery of U Ottama, a revered monk whose pacifist resistance against the colonial British inspired independence hero Aung San, father of Suu Kyi. In 2002, this was one of the few places the Nobel Peace Prize winner visited between stints of house arrest, and she called...
...Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud is keen to assert himself after assuming the leadership of the organization. But there is also speculation that any new campaign might be the work of al-Qaeda. Last week, Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister survived an al-Qaeda suicide bomb attack in the port city of Jeddah. (See pictures of Osama Bin Laden...
...Senate” and the last remaining son of the prominent Democratic political family, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday after a funeral mass packed with political dignitaries that included a eulogy by President Barack Obama.Kennedy passed away last Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. after a year-long battle with brain cancer. He was 77. More than 25,000 mourners lined up to pay their respects to the senator at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston on Thursday, and a private memorial for Kennedy was held at the Library the following...
...According to investigator Bastrykin, a full search of the vessel will be carried out when the ship arrives at a Russian port in the next few weeks. But observers don't expect any revelations. "The versions we are getting from the Russian government do not fit into any logical parameters, and I don't think that will change," commentator Latynina says. "When people lie, they tend to lie consistently...
...said, What the hell are you doing calling me when you have so many other things to think about? It was typical of Teddy," Kerry says. Kerry last saw Kennedy a few weeks ago, when the two sat on the Kennedy compound porch in Hyannis Port, Mass. "You know, he couldn't put all things together at that point - you'd finish some sentences for him in some ways," Kerry recalls, shifting his cane to stretch out his right leg. "But you knew what he was getting at. He was very tuned in to the boats that were sailing, that...