Word: visitations
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...orange cosmonaut suits emblazoned with red U.S.S.R. emblems and a diorama of happy cosmonaut mannequins sitting around a campfire next to a crashed space capsule waiting for pickup, Lynn Nordstrom of Albuquerque, N.M., and her two sons - in Moscow for the Eurovision song contest - say they are enjoying their visit. But "after looking at this, I'm afraid of the Egypt syndrome, where all you do is talk about how great you used to be," Nordstrom says. "The museum is terrific, but you need to look to the future. My whole youth was spent hearing about the U.S.S.R. making advances...
...from church teaching. And this is particularly true of the Vatican's relationships with foreign leaders, whom the Pope views as fellow heads of state. Some observers have interpreted Cardinal George's Oval Office meeting with Obama on St. Patrick's Day to talk about abortion as an emissary visit, speculating that the cardinal was sent by Benedict...
...world's most celebrated advocates of democracy is facing prison time after a bizarre visit by an American who swam to her home. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was charged with violating the terms of her house arrest and moved to prison after John Yettaw was caught swimming away from her lakeside compound on May 5. Suu Kyi, the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years after clashing with the country's brutal ruling junta. The charges against Suu Kyi, who is 63 and reportedly...
...Fearing she would not be allowed to return to Burma, Suu Kyi chose not to leave the country to visit her husband, Michael Aris, as he died of cancer in England...
...Italian press generally being more positive, a German reporter giving the Pontiff a C-minus for his much criticized remarks at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem), and one veteran concluding that John Paul would have been much more inspiring at these events. (See pictures of the Pope's visit to the Holy Land...