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...WCFIA is hosting a UN Security Council Reform forum in Coolidge Hall from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, featuring Sumio Kusaka, executive secretary to the chief cabinet secretary of Japan, Pramathesh Rath, Indian ambassador to Colombia, and Klaus Rupprecht, director of the German Foreign Office's East Asian division...
...longer facing him across the floor of the United States Senate, but Carol Moseley-Braun and Jesse Helms are still battling it out. When the White House announced the nomination of Moseley-Braun as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand recently, the North Carolina senator jumped into the fray. Citing allegations, never proven, that Moseley-Braun used 1992 campaign funds for personal purchases, he demanded Wednesday that the IRS and Justice Department hand over "sensitive" documents about the former Illinois senator and her staff members. In exchange for the information, Helms would agree to hold hearings on the nomination, which...
Even in Western capitals, the usual jitters were tempered by widespread relief that Sharif was gone. Although U.S. Ambassador William Milam met with Musharraf to inform him of Washington's "profound regret about the military takeover," the U.S. was not all that upset by last week's events. The Asian subcontinent has been a source of heightened anxiety for the U.S. since the spring of 1998, when India tested nuclear devices and Pakistan responded with its own nuclear tests. The two countries' dispute over the territory of Kashmir brought them to the brink of all-out war this year...
...invade their world. They were in part impressed with last year's award-winning special issue, "A Week in the Life of a Hospital," about the Duke University Medical Center, which we told them would be a model for this project. But they were also persuaded by our regional ambassador, team member and Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill, whose father is superintendent of another suburban St. Louis school district. "Having grown up in a family of public school educators," says Stodghill, "I've seen firsthand the dedication and hard work of these people under fairly trying circumstances...
LEND A HELPING HAND Be an ambassador to children in Ghana, help spruce up an ancient site in Greece, monitor rare birds in Ecuador or teach English in China. You'll feel good about yourself...