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...Jordan, where women's-rights advocates have succeeded in bringing attention to the issue, activists report an average of 20 honor killings a year.) "This isn't just an issue about women. It's about the whole society," says Safia al-Souhail, a female Iraqi politician who was appointed ambassador to Egypt last week. "We have to stop it. It's going on everywhere, and no one is speaking about...
...white--the godless communists against everyone else. Richard rejected the notion that the rest of the world either ought to be like us or wanted to be. Some soil may not be hospitable to "American values," he said. Richard was too much of a maverick to ever make ambassador, and so he ultimately returned to private law practice and spent decades stewing on the ideas that turned into his 1990 book, The Star Spangled Mirror...
...Minister who is Kerry's cousin. "Bush does not care if people like or don't like America. Mr. Kerry's worldview is wider." Maybe so. But is Europe's view of Kerry an overeager fiction? What would President Kerry really mean for Europe? Richard Holbrooke, President Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. and an informal Kerry adviser, says Kerry "would make rebuilding our alliances with Europe his first priority." So the tone could only improve - but what about substance? During the primaries, Kerry tacked away from some long-held free trade positions, but once he had won the nomination...
America's two main diplomats at the time were John Adams in London and Jefferson in Paris. Together they called upon Ambassador Abdrahaman, the envoy of Tripoli in London, in March 1786. This dignitary mentioned a tariff of three payments--for the ransom of slaves and hostages, for cheap terms of temporary peace and for more costly terms of "perpetual peace." He did not forget to add his own commission as a percentage. Adams and Jefferson asked to know by what right he was exacting these levies. The U.S. had never menaced or quarreled with any of the Muslim powers...
...intelligence community. Furthermore, there is intense anger over the White House's revealing the identity of Plame, who may have been active in a sting operation involving the trafficking of WMD components. Plame was outed in a White House attempt to discredit the finding of her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, that there was no evidence that Iraq tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger. "Only a very high-ranking official could have had access to the knowledge that Plame was on the payroll" of the CIA, an intelligence source told...