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From both "a worm's-eye view and a bird's-eye view" is how Chaim Herzog, former Israeli president and United Nations ambassador, described, during a book-signing ceremony at The Coop yesterday, his unique perspective on international events...
...Americans can readily identify Pamela Churchill Harriman, born Pamela Beryl Digby 76 years ago in England and currently U.S. ambassador to France. But in the international world of the redundantly rich and overpowered, she has been an object of desire, scorn, envy and grudging respect for more than 50 years...
Funderburk, a protege of Jesse Helms and a former Ambassador to Romania, is the first Republican to win the Second District this century. Like Helms, Funderburk thinks food stamps are wasteful--as is aid to countries that are not our friends. Democrats determined to get their seat back hope that the 1995 flap over an auto accident--the Congressman pleaded no contest to running a truck off the road--will derail...
That could be an interesting game, as Patriot-Leaguer Lafayette handed Princeton its first defeat of the season, a 3-2 upset on October 9. Unlike the Ivies, however, the Patriot League has a tournament to decide its champion, so the Leopards may not be the league's ambassador...
...then last week East Timor was back in the headlines. The committee for the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo gave its coveted award to two men who have never ceased perpetuating their homeland's hope for self-rule. One is Jose Ramos-Horta, 46, an exiled public relations ambassador for East Timor's guerrillas, who is now based in Australia; the other is Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, 48, the Roman Catholic bishop who resides in East Timor. While the award spotlights a neglected conflict, the world is divided about what to do about East Timor. Belo and Ramos-Horta certainly...