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...rang Bert up. I was working on a trading floor at the time, so a lot of the mechanics, if you like, made sense to me because that's was what I was dealing with on a trading floor in a slightly different format...
...then sent actors into villages to perform it and discuss the dangers of overweening power. Today, Arab and African exiles across Europe imagine a bloody vengeance against their leaders, those tribal Macbeths and oil-rich Caesars. As Kenya descended into violence last January, Leo, a Rwandan exile in London, rang me. One day, he said, the citizenry will bear this no longer, just like the citizens of 15th century England who rebelled against their aristocratic rulers, tired of the bloodletting and power struggles. He had just seen the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) production of Henry VI. During...
...benefits the entire region. Well-educated and well-spoken, Ma excites the Chinese diaspora in a way not even China's best and brightest do. On election night, I was watching the results with my wife on a Taipei cable channel in our Hong Kong home when the doorbell rang. It was our neighbors, a Taiwan family - husband, wife and their two children; they didn't have Taiwan TV and wished to follow the election on ours. As Ma pulled away from his opponent Frank Hsieh, the voice of the anchorwoman was drowned out by their cheers. The following morning...
When he came out, he didn't have a topcoat, and I said, "It's cool. You better go back and get your topcoat." And he was saying "Do I really need a coat?" And then the shot rang...
...never know what to expect when Karl Rove calls. But when the phone rang for Mary Ann Glendon last summer, Rove, still President Bush's top adviser at the time, had a holy mission for her: Ambassador to the Vatican. Now, having just landed in Rome, she has one of the biggest tasks of that mission already waiting on her desk: coordinating Benedict XVI's first papal visit next month to the United States. "It's a great moment to arrive here," Glendon says of her assignment to the Holy See. "[The trip] will be interesting... Be prepared...