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...have a big delegation from Colombia with the ambassador of Colombia, a steel band..., a mariachi group and a salsa group," he says. "There will [also] be lots of Spanish organizations and Portuguese [ones...
...help prepare the I.N.C. to form the basis of a new political system once Saddam was removed from power, by whatever means. I.N.C. representatives received plenty of U.S. diplomatic backing, with I.N.C. delegations meeting Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Vice President Al Gore and, as recently as April, U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright. But the symbolic support was never backed by significant cash infusions. One opposition figure calls the funds for the I.N.C. a "joke," less than 5% of what he says it needed to overthrow Saddam...
...great mentioner included this former Cincinnati mayor on the second tier of rumored Veep picks. The first African American to hold statewide executive office in Ohio, Blackwell has a resume that includes stints as city councilman, an ambassador to the U.N., and Deputy Housing Secretary under Jack Kemp. The son of a meat packer and a practical nurse, Blackwell was a Democrat growing up but switched parties in the 1980s. His conversion was driven in part by what he said is a "basic Jeffersonian" distrust of bureaucracies. "Doomsday," he said, "is the day we get all the government...
Marcel Dadi, a passenger aboard Flight 800, was one of the greatest "finger-style" guitar players in the world, a prolific songwriter, an enthusiastic performer with a wonderful sense of humor and an international ambassador of the Travis-Atkins style of playing. He had been in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Your article naming Dadi "the French 'flat-picking guitarist' " is tantamount to calling Babe Ruth one of the all-time great Brooklyn Dodgers. Finger-style players create a sound so different from that produced by flat pickers that to mistake...
...trucks, which provided lighting around the field, were the most controversial part of the program because 1) they were Chevy trucks, and commercialism is taboo during the ceremonies; and 2) they supposedly fostered the redneck stereotype of the South. But as Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor and American ambassador to the U.N. who helped bring the Games to the South, pointed out, trucks are also utility vehicles driven by people of all colors. Labels be damned, the Welcome dancers at one point spelled out in flash cards, HOW Y'ALL DOIN...