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...just for the E.U., but other parts of the world." The lady is certainly living up to the disappointment felt in some quarters at her selection as Europe's top diplomat. Truly, Europe (and those who look to it as a counterweight to other superpowers) deserves better. Hayat Mehdi, VIENNA...
...Samuel 5: 6-9; Joshua 15: 63). Strangely, the last paragraph refers to the city's 6,000-year history and even explicitly mentions the Jebusites who were there before David. That's a bit inconsistent with a founding date of 1,000 B.C. Michael Scharl, VIENNA...
ElBaradei is unusual by Egyptian political standards. He's an outsider to regime politics - a fact that the state-sponsored press has been quick to use against him. But it's a quality that also works in his favor. ElBaradei served in Vienna as chief of the international nuclear watchdog for 12 years, during which time he gained international recognition for challenging the Bush Administration's claims that Iraq had nuclear weapons ahead of the U.S.'s 2003 invasion. In 2005, ElBaradei was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to curb nuclear proliferation. Politically, his supporters...
...uniform is more confounding than Hubertus von Hohenlohe's. "It sounds strange," von Hohenlohe admits while relaxing in an Olympic Village coffee shop before the Mexican flag-raising event. "But it's not all that bad." The skier's grandmother is half-Mexican, and von Hohenlohe, who is a Vienna-based singer and photographer when he's not speeding down the slopes, was born in Mexico City while his father was running a Volkswagen plant there. "We always wanted to have one member of the family [who was] Mexican," he says. "So they chose that I was going...
...celebrity in Austria. The 21-year-old has hosted her own talk show and has been hounded by film crews desperate to tell her story. She reportedly bought the home where she was held captive to protect it from being torn down, but she lives in an apartment in Vienna where she's still trying to adjust to normal life and come to terms with her past. (See a brief history of Stockholm syndrome...