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...prisons in and near the frontier town of Kohat. "We are well geared up," he says. Last week the Pakistanis handed over Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, al-Qaeda's chief terrorist trainer, to the U.S. military in Kandahar. They also deported back to Afghanistan the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef. He is now in U.S. custody...
...mere five years of flying behind him, when in May 1927 he became the first pilot to complete a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. The audacious feat made him a national hero--the recipient of euphoric parades, a Congressional Medal of Honor and a posting as a roving ambassador of goodwill. TIME called him "the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt." He completed his annus mirabilis by meeting Anne Morrow, whom he would marry in 1929. They would seek privacy, especially after their son was notoriously kidnapped and murdered in 1932, but both would remain lifelong celebrities...
...Does nationality refer to what you are racially, or is it where you were born? Or where you grew up? What is it?' And everyone's like, 'Well, we don't know.' So they just ended up putting Japanese/American." Now, Utada thinks of herself as something of a cultural ambassador for Japan. "I feel my own Japanese side much more when I am in New York than when I'm in Japan. And every time I go to New York for a long period of time and go to Tokyo after that, it makes me sad to see all these...
...experience in TV or in Asia. But Rupert Murdoch wasn't looking for an expert: he wanted a trusted emissary who would look after his interests with the unswerving dedication of, well, family. In Asia, where family connections carry tremendous weight, someone with the Murdoch pedigree makes an ideal ambassador. Besides, Rupert already had somebody who knew about TV and Asia: himself. "You put someone in charge without any practical experience running a large business and you'd think it would be a prescription for disaster," says a senior News Corp. executive in New York. "But James came in listening...
...DIED. PETER BLAKE, 53, a two-time America's Cup winner and New Zealand sailing hero, shot by masked pirates who raided his 40-m yacht on the Amazon; near Macapa, Brazil. A U.N. goodwill ambassador, Blake was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution. He won the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 for sailing a catamaran nonstop around the globe in record time. DIED. JUAN JOSE ARREOLA, 83, a fiercely nationalist Mexican author who wrote 16 books of short stories and won Mexico's distinguished National Linguistics and Literature Prize in 1976; in Mexico City. Arreola...