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...australian diplomat will admit, managing the bilateral relationship with China is a relentless, high- energy task. The volume of issues that are in play at any time - for instance, trade and investment, uranium sales, human rights, tourist visas, students, intellectual property, military exercises, official delegations and Taiwan - makes for a great deal of bureaucratic and political work. Factor in the increasing intensity of engagement across the board (as well as the pace of globalization more generally) and it's clear that Canberra's China nannies are a busy bunch. A single incident or issue - hardball iron-ore price negotiations...
...sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood by her through her battle with breast cancer. He's now 35, an age at which most fast bowlers' bodies have cried, enough. But it's unlikely McGrath...
...some jokes specifically for Harvard. At the start of his speech, he played the part of the awestruck tourist, wondering aloud, “So this is Harvard?...The greatest gathering of intellects since Thomas Jefferson dined alone...
...while Hariri is a martyr who transcends Lebanon's sectarian divides-his grave in downtown Beirut has become the city's most popular tourist attraction-the circumstances surrounding his assassination are still cloaked in mystery. The bombing site remains cordoned off by police tape, the street littered with the gnarled remains of cars burned by the blast. A U.N. fact-finding mission concluded in March that the Syrian regime bore "primary responsibility" for the political circumstances leading up to Hariri's assassination, though Damascus has denied any involvement. A U.N. team arrived in Lebanon...
...major players of the Middle East at the time, from King Feisal of Saudi Arabia to Yasser Arafat to a young Iraqi named Saddam Hussein. Aburish was part of the Palestinian diaspora after the creation of Israel in 1948, and in exile his family took up the tourist trade in Beirut. There Mohammed Khalil Aburish (everyone called him by the more informal name Abu Said) pampered clients, including Saudi princes, during a period when no one paid particular notice to Saudi princes. Those contacts served him well once he took to journalism. TIME's access to Saudi Arabia, for example...