THE BITTERSWEET LEAVE-TAKING OF MICHELLE BACHELET OF CHILE?

THE BITTERSWEET

LEAVE-TAKING OF

MICHELLE BACHELET?

PRESIDENT

MICHELLE BACHELET

OF CHILE

An 80% approval rating and an 8.8

magnitude earthquake to manage

days before her term expires and

the constitution forbids her to succeed herself.

CHINA THEN & NOW: GUANGZHOU (CANTON) WALKOVER

CHINA THEN & NOW:

GUANGZHOU

CANTON (GUANGZHOU), 

GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA,

WALKOVER IN 1981

THEN:

Guangdong province was "ONE STEP AHEAD,"

wrote Ezra Vogel.

AND NOW:

According to the New York Times,

"Defying Global Slump, China Has Labor Shortage" --

and one of the places it has hit is Guangzhou (Canton),

the capital of Guangdong.

One of a series

To be published in

"HERE BE GIANTS"

LEE MYUNG-BAK SAYS GOOD-BYE TO HIS FIRST TWO YEARS AS PRESIDENT OF KOREA

LEE MYUNG-BAK

SAYS GOOD-BYE

TO HIS FIRST TWO YEARS

AS PRESIDENT OF KOREA

PROPOSES CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES;

MEETS RESISTANCE

KHRUSHCHEV'S "SECRET SPEECH": FEBRUARY 25, 1956

THE "SECRET" SPEECH 

OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV 

FEBRUARY 25, 1956 

THE MEMORIAL TO 

NIKITA SERGEYEVICH KHRUSHCHEV 

NOVODEVICHY CEMETERY 

MOSCOW 1984 

BAILING OUT: PARACHUTING OVER SAKHALIN

BAILING OUT

PARACHUTING OVER SAKHALIN

BACK IN THE DAY

USSR 1990

AUSTRALIA: KEVIN RUDD & THE "PERMANENT ALERT"

AUSTRALIA: KEVIN RUDD &

THE "PERMANENT ALERT"

A DIVERSIONARY TACTIC?

AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER KEVIN RUDD

RELEASES A WHITE PAPER ON TERRORISM

The BBC reports that Rudd "has warned that his 

country is now under a permanent and increased 

threat of militant attack."

Some Australian media see the Prime Minister as trying to divert attention from his domestic difficulties.

In any event, what is known is that there are plans "to 

fingerprint and face-scan visitors from 10 high-risk 

countries" -- which ones, however, not immediately 

specified.

BACK IN THE USSR, AGAIN: MOSCOW 1984

BACK IN THE USSR, AGAIN

MOSCOW COUPLE & BILLBOARD, 1984

"THE CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union):

OUR POLICY IS PEACE AND CONSTRUCTION,"

reads the billboard.

One of a series

To be published in

HERE BE GIANTS

CHINA THEN & NOW: XI'AN CITYSCAPE

CHINA THEN & NOW

XI'AN CITYSCAPE

PHOTOGRAPHED FROM

THE BELL TOWER

1981

One in a Series

To be published in

HERE BE GIANTS

MONUMENT VALLEY

MONUMENT VALLEY

ON THE NAVAJO RESERVATION

(ARIZONA-UTAH)

NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS AREA

Monument Valley II here

AND THE SPARKS FLEW: ZHENGZHOU, CHINA, THEN

AND THE SPARKS FLEW

LATHE OPERATOR

ZHENGZHOU, CHINA, 1981

One in a Series

CHINA THEN AND NOW

To be published in

HERE BE GIANTS

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: LIMA, PERU

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE

CELEBRATING APEC 2008

LIMA, PERU

from PERU SCENES

LENIN AGAIN: SOVIET MANAGEMENT AT SEA

LENIN AGAIN

SOVIET MANAGEMENT AT SEA

CAPTAIN OF A FLOATING FISH FACTORY

ON THE SEA OKHOTSK

OFF SAKHALIN (RUSSIA), USSR, 1990

LOS ALAMOS PASS IN THE SNOW: IN HONOR OF FEBRUARY 16

NEW MEXICO

"LAND OF ENCHANTMENT"

IN HONOR OF FEBRUARY 16

LOS ALAMOS PASS 

IN THE SNOW

More New Mexico here 

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER TURNS EIGHTY-ONE

JAMES SCHLESINGER

b. February 15, 1929

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER

BACK AT HARVARD

March 14, 2007

Harvard-trained economist turned national security specialist;

CIA Director; Secretary of Defense;

(first) Secretary of Energy

(under Nixon-Ford-Carter) --

wielding a slide rule when I first photographed him,

in Washington, D.C.

IN HONOR OF VALENTINE'S DAY: THE KISS

IN HONOR OF VALENTINE'S DAY

"THE KISS"

BY

VICTOR DELFIN

IN

THE LOVE PARK

LIMA, PERU

More

PERU SCENES

CHINA THEN AND NOW: SHANGHAI CLINIC

CHINA THEN AND NOW

THEN:

A CLINIC IN A SHANGHAI WORKERS'

APARTMENT COMPLEX, 1981

One of a Series

To be published in

HERE BE GIANTS

NOW:

The Los Angeles TIMES reports that "In China, shift

to privatized healthcare brings long lines and frustration"

MERKEL, "MUTTI," AND NOT-THE-MARK

MERKEL, "MUTTI," AND 

NOT-THE-MARK 

ANGELA MERKEL ON THE MOVE 

What to do about bearing gifts to the Greeks, especially when your own economy has unexpectedly slipped a bit? Chancellor Angela Merkel has to decide. 

German public opinion seems to be against anything smacking of a bailout. The New York Times has already run a headline proclaiming that "Germany, Forced to Buoy Greece, Rues Euro Shift." It is we-told-you-so time bemoaning the loss of the "beloved Deutschmark" (Financial Times). Yet what is to become of the European project "beloved" of former Chancellors? 

Will Merkel be Mutti (Mom) or Catherine the Great? 

(For a photograph of Angela Merkel and George W. Bush holding hands, see here.) 

BILL CLINTON HOSPITALIZED

BILL CLINTON 

HOSPITALIZED 

BILL CLINTON IN DAYS OF YORE -- 

TO WIT, 

1988 & THE DEMOCRATIC 

NATIONAL CONVENTION 

For more on the original heart work, look here in the postings for September 3-6, 2004 

PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG OF SINGAPORE (b. February 10, 1952)

LEE HSIEN LOONG

b. February 10, 1952

THIRD PRIME MINISTER OF SINGAPORE

August 12, 2004-Present

Son of Current Minister Mentor

(and First Prime Minister of Singapore,

June 3, 1959-November 28, 1990)

LEE KUAN YEW