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...York City. He was heading home to the Vatican from a conference in Dallas and had saved a day to tour what was then still regularly called the Big Apple. According to Father James O'Connor, who was acting as his chauffeur, Ratzinger sat in the front seat, the better to take in the hustle and buzz of the city. They visited the (Episcopal) Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the medievally furnished Cloisters museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the way to Kennedy Airport, the car stalled halfway through the Midtown Tunnel, between Manhattan and Queens...
When Kosovo hired ID, it was trying to negotiate independence from Serbia, but because it was not yet a state, it wasn't allowed a seat at the table when the U.N. Security Council discussed the issue. ID tapped contacts inside the talks to keep Kosovars in the loop and made sure important points were addressed by, for example, helping draft letters to the negotiators. In February, Kosovo declared its independence and became an ID success story...
...artistic work. Theater can be oppressive if you don’t have something funny. Doing comedy well is tough, even scary because if a joke falls flat it kills the scene. The intensity of the scene is what keeps you at the edge of your seat but the comedy is what keeps you wanting to be on your seat in the first place. In order to be interesting, a play doesn’t have to be a comedy at all, but there has to be a humanity to it that, I think, is inherently silly.Humor and witty dialogue...
...capabilities. Again, it is a lesson he learned from recent experience. In 2004 Sadr's militia was severely damaged in fighting with American soldiers and Marines. In the process, however, Sadr became a symbol of Shi'ite resistance to the U.S. military occupation and parlayed that reputation into a seat at the political table. And so now, just when it appeared that he might be marginalized again, the Iraqi government has burnished Sadr's image as a leader who defies the United States and an Iraqi government that refuses to eject U.S. troops...
...Four hours later, the commission announced results for another 18 parliament seats - nine each for the ruling and opposition parties. Those results included Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa losing his seat in a former ruling party rural stronghold...