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Performance of the Week Relations between India and Pakistan got a boost last week after some hotel hopping diplomacy in New York City. First, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH traveled to the Roosevelt Hotel to meet PAKISTAN PRESIDENT PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, who gave him a painting of Singh's boyhood hometown, the village of Gah in Pakistan's Punjab province, and one of his old report cards. Then the two men had a one-on-one meeting without aides that lasted an hour. Later in the day, Musharraf traveled five blocks to Singh's hotel, the New York Palace, where...
...Party is whether it can aim for a Rooseveltian term of office," says Denis MacShane, Labour's Minister for Europe, referring to F.D.R.'s renewal of his Administration's energy and policies during his long presidency. But even as Labour eyes another four years in power, the contrast between Roosevelt's war and Blair's has to make them feel a little nervous...
...unite fashion designers, members of the retail world and consumers to raise money in support of the 2004 Democratic candidates." On the other side, designers are urged to include a quote or reference to a socially relevant topic. Alice + Olivia items, for example, include a quote by Theodore Roosevelt that reads, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public...
...know why there was a question mark in Klein's title phrase "America Divided?" I have been around since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration and have never seen anything like the divisions today. The public reaction to the McCarthy witch hunts in the 1950s, the 1954 court decision on separate-but-equal schooling, the 1964 civil rights legislation and the 1974 Watergate affair did not exhibit the deep schisms apparent in the U.S. today. The divisions are the worst since the Civil War. RALPH CRAIG Amherst, Mass...
...Commission, which has launched its own investigation into the company: The Apartment Swap The Blacks "swapped" their flat for one that Hollinger owned in the same building, diverting "a $2.5 million value from Hollinger to Black" The F.D.R. Papers Black had Hollinger "pay $8.9 million to acquire Franklin D. Roosevelt papers and memorabilia without ... board approval." He was writing a biography of F.D.R. at the time Lavish Galas The company footed the bills for Barbara Black's birthday party ($42,870), for "summer drinks" ($24,050) and for dinners with board director Henry Kissinger ($28,480) Hefty Salaries Black...