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...Summers graduated from MIT in 1975 and earned his doctorate from Harvard in 1982. His wife, Victoria, is a tax attorney...
...tough throws a party. Last week, as his government expelled two foreign journalists, President Robert Mugabe faced a new wave of international censure. His country bankrupt, its judiciary in tatters and the press and the opposition under increasing harassment, Mugabe threw himself a three-day 77th-birthday bash at Victoria Falls...
...secure urban support-by intimidation and force if necessary-in order to hold a snap election this year, possibly in July, that will put him in power for another six years. If that is the case, he should look elsewhere for his next birthday party. By then, even Victoria Falls may be closed...
...series of connected igloos covering 10,000 sq. ft., the hotel is but a few minutes' walk from the Manoir Montmorency, once home of Queen Victoria's father, and the mighty waterfalls that have drawn visitors for hundreds of years. There is nothing flimsy about the building, as it's composed of 4,750 tons of compressed snow and ice. Its domed ceilings are 16 ft. at their peak; its walls are 7-ft. thick. In the hotel, an ice chandelier shimmers over world-class ice sculptures of various subjects, including animals, an igloo and Inuit as they go about...
...polish its international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants to keep as home. Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity have said their prayers and are tucked into their bunk beds. The prized upright piano she and Bruce bought last November sits in her bedroom, ready for the morning's hymns. And as the policemen, cadres and other details of the communist state tromp through...