News
By Anna Gawel
The Washington Diplomat

Liberia Set to Conclude Milestone Election
Liberians head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 8, to pick their new president in a dramatic runoff election that pits a former international soccer star against the country’s ex-finance minister…Read More

CARE Helps Disaster Victims, the Right Way
Margaret Tsitouris, who spearheaded CARE’s emergency response to global disasters for six years, discussed the ongoing efforts to help tsunami victims in Southeast Asia—and to prevent another catastrophe from taking place in the aftermath of the Oct. 8 earthquake in Pakistan and India…Read More

Macedonia Shares Its Balkan Success Story
Macedonian Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski came to Washington with a message: Let Macedonia serve as an example for how to successfully instill democracy in the Balkans…Read More

Volcker Talks About U.N. Oil-for-Food Scandal
The fact that his report was due to be released the next day only added to the excitement as a packed crowd of Johns Hopkins students gathered to listen as Paul Volcker dissected how the United Nations came to be tarnished by the biggest corruption scandal in its history…Read More

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Lifestyle
By Gail Scott
The Washington Diplomat

Dominican Republic’s Ovations
For Washington Ballet
Dodging Hurricane Wilma and Tropical Storm Alpha, the Washington Ballet recently created its own whirlwind in the Dominican Republican with two nights of standing ovations welcoming hometown ballerina Michele Jimenez back to the same stage she left in 1998…Read More

Turkey’s Long Farewe ll
The huge farewell and national day reception for Turkish Ambassador Faruk Logoglu and his fashionable wife Mimi only heightened the feeling of how much Washingtonians will miss the popular Turkish ambassador and his wife when they depart later this fall…Read More

Georgetown’s Four Seasons Wins Fifth Star
The Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., has just been awarded its fifth star by the prestigious Mobil Travel Guide, making the newly restyled Georgetown hotel this country’s only new five-star property in 2005 and the first and only five-star hotel in Washington, D.C. …Read More