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It started when I saw Andrew Morton, the biographer of Princess Diana and Monica Lewinsky, in shorts and sneakers, power-walking away on Parliament Hill Fields in north London. My own [...]

GOING BACK TO A place is easy; going back in time is not, especially when the absence had been too long, in my case, some 30 years. I had visited [...]

Even before he was hospitalized last summer for the removal of a tumor 'the size of an orange' from his intestines, Pope John Paul II seemed to be weakening. On [...]

It was Saturday night in La Cite, the great, reptilian slum in Kinshasa. I had made new friends when the car I had rented bogged down in sand in a [...]

It is after about 6 P.M. that most Romans take their passeggiata, the stroll that eases afternoon's end toward the stirrings of suppertime. But there are alternative rituals, and one [...]

CAIRO'S HEAT BEGINS TO build in the springtime, and by midsummer it is daunting. The first option for escape is air-conditioning -- chilled cars, glacial apartments, arctic hotel rooms, refrigerated [...]

LEAD: Greeks on the whole do not drink to drink but to see and be seen, and Kolonaki Square in downtown Athens is where it happens: any one of an [...]

JUNE 16, 1976, IS WOVEN INTO THE SOUL OF BLACK protest in South Africa. On that day, after years of silence, Soweto, the sprawling black township on the outskirts of [...]

From an artist's street in Rome to the pull of the African bush, correspondents of The Times report on some memorable discoveries. THE BUSH: AFRICA'S CRADLE For those born in [...]

LUCAS, AGED 14, NEEDED NO ENCOURagement to talk about his ambitions. ''When I am 18,'' he said, ''I will go to become a cadre in Lusaka. Then, instead of stones, [...]

LEAD: THE NEWSPAPER BILLBOARD I sighted on my last drive to Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport bore the message ''Evicted U.S. Newsman Regarded as Hostile.'' I was, in fact, being expelled [...]

LEAD: BY THE EMERALD rush of the Habur River, on the Turkish frontier, the Iraqi armies of Saddam Hussein raised their banners in late August to signal their victory over [...]

THE EMBLEMS EVOKE MEM-ories of evil. In a circle of white surrounded by red, a kind of three-legged black swastika seems inspired by the principle totem of Nazism. The scarlet [...]