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...Even the staunchest critics of recent changes say that, in order to maintain its place as the second leading tourist attraction in Boston behind Faneuil Hall Marketplace, the Square must sometimes sacrifice its other qualities as a cultural and recreational destination...
...BULGARIA One of the U.S.'s staunchest backers on Iraq has already received a nice thank-you. On a tour to tell Eastern Europe "how much we appreciate them" for their support, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans last week gave Bulgaria a special treat: he announced that the U.S. now officially considers the country a "market economy." That will lay out a welcome mat to investors...
...Turks aren't the only ones having a hard time selling the war to their legislature and electorate - even President Bush's staunchest ally, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, is struggling. A parliamentary vote on a motion, rejected by Blair, to give UN inspections more time in Iraq saw almost one third of the legislators of Blair's own Labor Party vote against his government. Although Blair, with the help of the opposition Conservatives, still won the vote by a comfortable 2-1 margin, the fact that almost one third of his own party's legislators broke party discipline...
...Although such revelations, if true, might seem innocuous to a casual observer, they are heretical to Sugihara's staunchest defenders and have triggered a ferocious legal and rhetorical response. In August, a libel suit for some $83,000 was filed in Tokyo against Levine's Japanese publisher, claiming that the book is a farrago of lies designed to discredit Sugihara and his memory. Levine calls the accusation preposterous, telling TIME that his real intention was to "make well-known the glorious meaning of Sugihara." A new round of hearings is set to begin this month...
...average episode of Friends. Yet if Washington fails to revamp its image in Asia, it may push countries into the embrace of the rising great power: China. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is taking his country down that road, even though Thailand is traditionally one of Washington's staunchest military allies. China has the cachet of being the region's new economic engine. And increasingly, Asia's industrializing nations see their future as being intertwined with a Middle Kingdom that will be buying more TVs and DVD players than the U.S. within a decade. America...