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Menino’s predecessor—a then-popular Raymond Flynn—only left his office to become ambassador to the Vatican in 1993. Menino, who then became acting mayor, has since solidified his power with victories in the 1993 and 1997 elections...
...Timothy A. Chorba, a 1972 HLS graduate who served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore from 1994 to 1997, says some of the HLS rhetoric about the emergence of an international law community might be overblown...
...Long before Japan was a wartime enemy of the U.S., American movies displayed the Japanese as an alien people, with a culture as remote and, in the old phrase, inscrutable as Mars. Hayakawa was the movies' first ambassador from this remote empire. In 1915 he played an Eastern dude in Western garb in Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat. All slim smiles and secret sneers, he seduces gullible Fannie Ward with a private loan; later he drops his suavity, attacking and then, gosh, branding...
...planned publication of junior-high school textbooks that still present a watered-down version of Japan's military aggression has provoked official protests from China, the temporary withdrawal of South Korea's ambassador and a South Korean cyberattack that crashed the Japanese Education Ministry website in March. The message that the rest of Asia takes from these episodes is clear: Japan still doesn...
Director of Florida investment firm and adviser in Jeb's 1998 race. Her husband was Bush Sr.'s ambassador to Iceland...