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Even after a precampaign diet last year -- less wine, less cheese and especially less chocolate -- Francois Hollande, the Socialist who is currently favored to become the next president [...]

SHE MAKES FUN, in private, of the way he walks and talks, of his rapid, jerky gestures and facial grimaces. He mocks her deliberation, her reluctance, her matronly caution. She [...]

Palestinians never used to do these things to one another. Putting bullets in the back of the heads of men on their knees. Shooting up hospitals. Killing patients. Knee-capping doctors. [...]

Hamdi Shabiu is an almost excessively humble man, grateful for attention, quick to provide coffee and a seat in the one warm room of the poor little house he and [...]

In a moral universe full of shadows and grief, I have been an American correspondent working in a country at war with America. Of course, it is the NATO alliance [...]

With the professional decline of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, still better known in the West as the Kirov, has become the one necessary stop in [...]

IF you tromp around Moscow enough in winter, you'll want a bit of deviltry, or at least some decent hot tea. After you've done Red Square, seen the 'smoked fish' [...]

Now that Russia has opened its cities and countryside to foreigners, what shocks most is the gloomy monotony of this vast, centralized empire. The same corroded aluminum surrounds the same [...]

To get anywhere by train these days, Russians must be prepared to pay double the normal price to gangs who've already secured all the tickets. Thousands wait in dank, dim [...]

LOOKING LIKE POOH Bear in the lions' den, Yegor Timurovich Gaidar, the Acting Prime Minister of Russia, strode to the podium to face his harshest audience, the Supreme Soviet, the [...]

Sunday evening in Ho Chi Minh City. At first it sounds like the beginning of 'Apocalypse Now,' with the growling whumf-whumf of American helicopters prowling across the paddy fields, reconning [...]

If you don't see the coffin, you shed no tears. -- Thai proverb. FOUR THAI MEN, CIGARETTES IN hand, sit on a rough bamboo bench, staring across a packed dirt [...]

LEAD: FOR ME, AN IDEAL night in Southeast Asia must be in a place where a cellular telephone has yet to ring. At its end must be a long ride [...]

LEAD: For those Americans of a certain generation, and for anyone who's decided that travel, let alone life, isn't quite as exotic as it used to be, Saigon (now Ho [...]

LEAD: AT DUSK, WHEN ALL THE WESTERN relief workers have left for the day, blue Chinese-made trucks drive up to Site 8. Nudging the Thai-Cambodian border, Site 8 is run [...]