1. Before leaving for Washington, President Triet and his delegation were banqueted by the Asia Foundation and met with representatives from different social circles in New York.

2. "Whatever you say about General Musharraf, he is not a democrat," he says, adding that he "will not last forever". North Korea Patten recounts a "bizarre" trip to the reclusive Stalinist state of North Korea, where President Kim Jong–Il has "a bouffant hairstyle all his own, in which each hair seems to have been individually seeded in his scalp". "[The book] says much of what I‘ve wanted to say, but until now couldn‘t say candidly, about Britain, Europe, America and our rapidly changing world" Chris Patten "We banqueted with Kim and a group of grumpy old men, with faces like Christmas walnuts ... We were served much better Burgundy than we would have drunk in Brussels.