As fraud surfaced in the Afghan election, the No. 2 U.N. official in the country, Peter W. Galbraith, proposed enlisting the White House in aplan to replace Hamid Karzai.
In what U.S. officials describe as a concerted effort to harass American diplomats, frequent car searches and the denial of visas have disrupted embassy work.
As Afrikaners celebrate an 1838 covenant said to have led to the slaughter of 3,000 Zulus, the ideal of a rainbow nation now seems little more than a deft turn of phrase.
For a company that has spent millions on advertising linking its consulting services with the image of the golfer, severing the association may take time.