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...Bongo set the paradigm for Africa in other ways too. What money he did spend on Gabon went on white-elephant prestige construction projects - a raft of new government buildings and a $2 billion transnational railway - which, when oil prices dipped, were funded by debt that spiraled out of control and threatened to bankrupt the country. And in politics, Bongo fixed elections for himself and bought off political opposition with money or power - despite its small size, Gabon has more than 40 Cabinet Ministers - or worse. Several opposition members were killed in the 1970s. In 1990, the mysterious death...
...speech today, one of his old teachers produced a photo of Geithner from that summer: it showed the future Treasury Secretary looking anything but buttoned down. Dressed in a T shirt and sporting a head of unruly, curly hair, he was photographed in front of Beijing's main railway station before he departed on a trip to Beidaihe, the seaside resort to which Beijing residents flock to beat the oppressive summer heat in China's capital. Surf's up, dude. The audience of 150 students laughed as Geithner, grinning sheepishly, accepted the photo...
...great collection of 20th and 21st century work, is a complicated exercise in reconciliation. A resolutely modern building, it not only manages to gently introduce itself into the greenery of Chicago's Millennium Park but also draws in three tricky neighbors - the original Art Institute, the active commuter railway lines that run between them, and the city of Chicago, where around any corner there's another architectural masterpiece asking just what you're doing here. To which Piano's building has an easy answer: "Making myself at home." (See pictures of Renzo Piano's major projects...
...wholesome South African breakfast, or a large wedge of chocolate cake, take a break at Kalk Bay Expresso (73 Main Road, tel: (27-21) 788 8843), located in an antique railway dining carriage near the platform of Kalk Bay station...
...rambling network of rooms at The Railway House (23 Main Road, tel: (27-21) 788 4761) is a fitting showcase for the antique trove contained therein: in the pink room, you can find a fully operational '60s pinball machine, while the African room offers up a hand-beaten copper bath...