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President Bush had a tough message to deliver on the first working day of a weeklong swing through Asia, but first he had some fun. The President eschewed the high-priced bric-a-brac that usually passes for host gifts between world leaders, and startled Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday by cruising up to the bamboo-fenced Kyoto State Guest House on a Segway-the two-wheeled upright self-propelled scooter of the future that is a popular rental for tourists. Witnesses said Koizumi looked taken aback, but accepted Bush's suggestion that he go for a spin...
...Take the weeklong Nor’easter that hit our campus in October. As I’m sure we all noticed, the slant of the wind and rain made it impossible not to get soaked during the long walk from building to building. I see no reason why we had to spend two days sitting in lecture with our wet jeans plastered to our shivering thighs when we have $25.9 billion at our disposal to protect us from inconveniences like the weather. If the United States of America—which doesn’t even have an endowment?...
...past week was studded with Lewis Albert events: first a fashion show and launch party at Chateau Véronique in Brookline, complete with a full open bar to lure a crowd. That was followed by a weeklong trunk show held at the Inn, along with a line-up of private fitting appointments...
...year's congress, the first in New York in two decades, will draw some 700 PEN members from places as distant as South Korea and Argentina; among them will be three Nobel prizewinners and such luminaries as Günter Grass, Nadine Gordimer, Octavio Paz and Eugène Ionesco. The weeklong festivities will feature more than 30 panels on subjects as diverse as Translating Whitman, Alienation and the State, Science Fiction, and Censorship in the U.S.A. Total tab for the event, according to PEN: around...
...exaggeration to say that all of Taiwan was eyeing China last week, as a historic opportunity for better cross-strait relations played out. Lien Chan, chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT), the party that's been a longtime enemy of China's Communists, touched down on the mainland for a weeklong "Journey of Peace" that ultimately brought him to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for a much anticipated handshake with President Hu Jintao. Lien, who unsuccessfully ran twice for Taiwan's presidency, hadn't been on the mainland since he left with his family...