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President Bush arrived in Vienna yesterday night. It caught the Viennese by surprise. (Hey! It's the first time we've been noticed by the Americans in 27 years!)
Somehow it seems disturbingly appropriate that a program of talks that will cover the situation in Iraq is taking place in Central Europe's former Imperial capital.
Report from AP via NYTimes. BBC perspective.
Tags: Vienna, colonialism
As Bush was driven to his hotel, curious onlookers, most of whom remained motionless and expressionless, gathered along Vienna's streets. One group struggled unsuccessfully to unfurl a ''Go Home'' banner from a restaurant balcony in time for it to be seen by occupants of the speeding motorcade. (More)
Somehow it seems disturbingly appropriate that a program of talks that will cover the situation in Iraq is taking place in Central Europe's former Imperial capital.
Report from AP via NYTimes. BBC perspective.
Tags: Vienna, colonialism
Posted 21 June 2006 at 11:10.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
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