RIGAOne person stands out amid the rows of men in dark blue and black suits in a photograph of European Union member and candidate country leaders taken at the Athens summit last week.With her powder blue suit and fiery red hair, Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga has become easy to spot on television and in newspapers as she travels around Europe and North America rubbing shoulders with world leaders. Her tales of fleeing Latvia as a girl ahead of the advancing Red Army told in flawless Latvian or English or French have gained her friends in the highest echelons of power in both Europe...
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