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...Greek fishing village and Roman frontier outpost, the town developed slowly until the late 18th century, when the continent, for a change, was at peace and wealthy Europeans started to travel in search of different art, culture - and weather. The following century saw Nice inundated with French, English and Russian aristocrats. In La Belle Epoque Nice was such a popular destination for its mild winter, Kanigel says, that it "luxuriated in civic self-confidence [and] flaunted its excesses." England's Queen Victoria visited five years in a row for a couple of months each winter, along with 60 staff. After...
...Most Segregated Hour It is Sunday morning in Sacramento's Meadowview community, and hundreds of Russian-speaking immigrants-men in dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game-are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish- language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
...When Ukrainian immigrant Tamila Demyanik says, through an interpreter, that "the church is the major part of my life," it is no understatement. To the Demyaniks, First Slavic is a lifeline in a foreign land. Her husband buys bread at First Slavic and checks its bulletin board and a Russian phone book for community information. Longtime church members accustomed to America provide emotional support to newcomers and help them negotiate thickets of red tape in health care, housing and more...
...mission in Dagestan, was seized by three gunmen in the suburbs of Makhachkala, the regional capital. Following the abduction, M.S.F. suspended aid work throughout Russia's North Caucasus region. Dagestan borders Chechnya, where M.S.F. and the U.N. suspended operations last month after the kidnaping of aid worker Nina Davidovich. Russian Interior Ministry officials said no ransom had been demanded for Erkel, and M.S.F. said it had not been contacted by his yet-unknown abductors. NIGERIA Resign or Else The ruling People's Democratic Party said it will take strong action against its members who voted to impeach Nigeria's President...
...opens for its weekly get-together. The local anglophones and anglophiles gather for some shared company. Western diplomats, expatriate businessmen, students, travelers and even a few Commonwealth types put in a showing. The American ambassador was complaining recently about the local labor market and the bureaucracy at the Russian embassy. The British ambassador was putting in his usual two hours a week behind the bar, pulling pints in person. It was the sort of gathering that went out of style a half-century ago along with colonialism. But time, as you know, forgot Mongolia...