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...nation's biggest political stars - albeit one with a penchant for accepting lavish gifts. "The fact that a leader like Mayawati can rise, that a Dalit woman can have a shot at becoming the Prime Minister of India," says historian Ramachandra Guha, "is a matter of pride for Indian democracy." Too few other Asian nations can be so proud...
...while some Czechs may be flushed with pride, President Vaclav Klaus is not, and that has officials in Brussels riled. The Czech leader, a Euro skeptic in the best of times, has refused to fly the E.U. flag over public buildings like Prague Castle, saying it reminds him of the days when his country was made to fly the Soviet flag. Outgoing E.U. president Nicolas Sarkozy of France called that stance an "outrage" and a "wound," while European Commission president José Manuel Barroso said anyone comparing the E.U. with the Soviet Union "doesn't understand what the Soviet Union...
...brothers to come back and rebuild the new Iraq," he told his audience, adding that he had stayed through the worst years of the violence, during which he took on the leadership of two additional churches whose priests had fled. After the service, others in the congregation echoed his pride...
...Since Saturday, Obama has been lying low in a way only a man born and raised on Oahu could, working out, lounging on the beach and eating spam musubi on the golf course where he learned the game as a teenager. Hawaiians were ecstatic - with more than just local pride. The local economy, like everywhere else in the world, has suffered with the global financial crisis. Local enterprises were eager to latch on to the state's most famous son in hopes of reviving business. Indeed, as early as November, the Hawai'i Visitors and Convention Bureau unveiled a micro...
...News "this is something that would honor me." A Lebanese television channel has proffered al-Zaidi a job, with his salary effective "from the second he threw the shoe." There's a repressed glee in the many demonstrations across the Middle East in support of him, a sense of pride that an ordinary Arab furiously expressed the disdain and anger that many feel toward the U.S. President for his calamitous legacy in the Middle East. And that al-Zaidi did so using his shoes - an insult of choice in the Arab world - makes it even more delicious for many...