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...Bill Clinton's U.S. ambassador. Fans tout Peterson as a Democratic John McCain; detractors say he is McCain without the charisma. But Nelson and Florida's senior Senator, Bob Graham, sent top Democratic fund raisers to Hanoi last spring to lure Peterson home. As he and his Vietnamese wife Vi Le were packing in May, Reno broke the blind-siding news that she too might run--setting up a potential north-south rift that could weaken the Democrats as they prepare to battle Bush...
...afterward, Hassan II released the Tazmamart prisoners--58 ex-soldiers who had allegedly taken part in another coup and had been locked in tiny cells with little food and no light 24 hours a day for 18 years. After Hassan II's death in 1999, his son, King Mohammed VI, hastened the turning of the page, allowing the publication of two Tazmamart memoirs and permitting a commemorative march to the notorious, now closed Tazmamart prison. "He is very courageous," says Oufkir. "Speaking about the past freely is the best way to build the future." Toward that end, Oufkir...
Religious tolerance in our country isn't a political fashion," Moroccans like to say, "it's simply the way we live." André Azoulay illustrates the point. A counselor to King Mohammed VI, he is the only Jew who holds an influential position anywhere in the Arab world. Through history, Moroccan kings and sultans officially "protected" Jews and hired "court Jews" at the palace. But Azoulay, the palace makes clear, is on the payroll as an able patriot, not as a recipient of religious patronage...
...With time, practice and some gym work, I could probably get used to the load. Luckily I won't have to. In a couple of months, Xybernaut will launch the MA-V, the next-generation wearable. In December it will release the first mass-market version, yet unnamed (MA-VI? I don't think so), made by Hitachi under license from Xybernaut. Product specs are a closely guarded secret, but it's a fair bet that the MA-V will be less bulky than the MA-IV, and the Japanese-made version a lot lighter...
...This cycle boasts at least two star-making performances. The 24-year-old David Oyelowo is a magnificent Henry VI. His Queen meanwhile is the terrifying Fiona Bell, whose Margaret moves from manipulative beauty to a crazed outcast, dragging her slaughtered son's bones around in a sack. Earlier, Samuel West and particularly RSC regular David Troughton proved electric as Richard II and his nemesis Bolingbroke (later Henry IV). Desmond Barritt is a sad, lyrical Falstaff, and newcomer William Houston exciting but mannered as Henry...