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Bush was openly derisive of international institutions for much of this term, but the crisis in Iraq has forced him to try to reach out. In June, when he called former Missouri Senator John Danforth to offer him the post of U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Danforth hesitated. "I told him, 'Mr. President, the book on you is that you're a unilateralist and the U.N. isn't important,'" Danforth says. "And his response to me was, 'No, that's not right. It's very important to use the U.N. to establish better relations with the rest of the world...
aSmallWorld CEO Erik Wachtmeister, 49, a former investment banker whose father was Sweden's ambassador to the U.S., says his 30,000 users are moneyed celebrities, models and bankers between 25 and 35 years old, living in Europe or North America. "It's like a club," he says. "What's the point of inviting everybody? You're not going to have the same cozy feeling. Our members want it to be private...
...Trade Ambassador...
Driving France's effort to shore up its second-place ranking among the world's destinations for foreign investment is Gaymard, 44, France's ambassador for international investment. Despite E.U. integration and strained Franco-U.S. relations, Gaymard stresses, the U.S. remains "our biggest market, our first market"; U.S. investment rose 12% in 2003. Besides managing her career and her family life--with eight children and a husband, Agriculture Minister Hervé Gaymard--she recently published a novel. --By William...
...family connections gave him a breadth of knowledge about world politics that distinguished him among the more narrowly-focused business students—even creating a way of bridging cultural gaps. Osamu Koyama remembers that “At the time his father was appointed the first ambassador to China, he was well known among the students. I’d ask him about his father, and he’d ask about Japan...