Bythe time he flew to New York City late in theweek for his first public appearance, he was the same outspoken champion of freedom who won admiration around the world for daring to stand up to China's communist leadership.
They might make all the difference to the planet's future: such at least was the view passionately expressed by Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, who flew this week from Kabul where he made an emergency visit because of a bomb attack on his staff, and a political crisis to a faith-and-ecology celebration in Windsor Castle, one of the residences of the British royal family.