Word: ambassadored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book you talk about former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick advising you to "lose the professor clothes." What did you do? Well, it gave me a great excuse to shop. So I went and bought more professional-looking suits, a lot of suits. But I did buy things with bright colors. I bought red suits and green, and had a good time with it. More formal, absolutely. But I didn't want to look like...
...literature flourishing but did not say a word about writers in jail, about censorship or prohibitions," Dai told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA). Dai, however, had plenty to say on the topic, in interviews and at fair-related events. By reacting so vitriolically to her presence - China's former ambassador to Germany Mei Zhaorong said, "We didn't come for a lesson on democracy" - China ensured that the uglier elements of its treatment of journalists and authors would be a focus of the fair. "The media is paying attention to us. We can speak freely," she told...
...Rogues Gallery Than Shwe is burma's paramount ruler, but he is not alone at the top. Hard-line loyalists within the military include General Thura Shwe Mann, his likely successor, and U Thaung, a former ambassador to the U.S., now the Science and Technology Minister who is believed to be driving the junta's long-held ambitions to acquire nuclear technology. Also influential are a handful of Burmese business tycoons, many of whom - like the generals themselves - are the subject of U.S. and E.U. sanctions that severely restrict overseas travel and investments. Lobbying of Than Shwe by these business...
...later years, Sosa went beyond her role as a musician to serve as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. But the South American troubadour (below, with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) never thought of herself as an activist. "All of us," she once said, "whether we are artists or military, must collaborate if we are to keep democracy on its feet and walking...
...what should be applauded, is a group of respected leaders - African and non-African alike - standing up and stating that quite so boldly. The non-award this year will make future prizes more valuable, more weighty. "It's a decision in the right direction," Kwaku Danso-Boafo, Ghana's ambassador to Britain, told TIME after the announcement. "They're saying that African leaders have improved, but that they have to do more. This stick-and-carrot approach is good." Expect more future non-awards. If a prize like this is to be serious, it's inevitable...