Word: ambassadorship
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...this work harder than putting a country back together? It's very different. One is a foreign ambassadorship, you're dealing with a foreign culture [and] nation building. This has to do with the organization of our own government and working in an interagency environment. I've done both fieldwork and homework. And this is homework...
Sarah Feinberg, a spokesperson for Daschle, said it is unclear whether Frazer will be affected by the standoff, since an ambassadorship is hardly the same thing as a judicial seat. “If she gets to the committee quickly and comes in front of the Senate right away, she may get caught in that conflict,” she said...
...fugitive Iraqi dictator held his ground. Mowaffaq Mahmoud al-Ani, Iraq's ex-Ambassador to China, has completed seven weeks of an armed occupation of Iraq's embassy in Beijing. According to Talal al-Khudairi, who has been tapped by Iraq's new Foreign Ministry to assume the ambassadorship, al-Ani received a telegram relieving him of his duties on June 6. Determined to ignore the order, al-Ani chained the doors of key embassy offices shut, armed himself and his wife with pistols, and-says al-Khudairi-warned colleagues that he would "put a bullet in the head...
...When Beers was nominated last spring - a lifetime ago - an all-star ad exec looked like just the ticket for a post that has long been a high-level plum akin to an ambassadorship, or a harmless halfway house for political appointees. Beers's predecessor, Evelyn Lieberman, was exiled there after a brave (but fruitless) effort to keep the president and Monica apart in the White House. Post-Sept. 11, with the battle for the Arab street to whom Osama is a hero almost as important as the battle to capture Jalalabad, the job seems to call more...
...Some Republican insiders speculate that Harris could receive an ambassadorship if Bush is elected. Better make it somewhere eminently desirable. Heaven knows, if the GOP can seize the White House in this mess, they'll owe Harris at least that much...