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...Austria, where he made a statement to an online magazine he controlled, dismissing the charges as a part of slander campaign. The real reason, he said, was his informing Nazarbayev of his intentions to run for Presidency in 2012. An enraged Nazarbayev stripped his son-in-law of the ambassadorship and dispatched a group of top law enforcers aboard a special flight to bring the culprit home. They came back empty-handed. "Under the circumstances," Aliyev explained yesterday in a phone interview from Vienna to a Kazakh online magazine, "only a suicide will come back." Still, all entry points...
...only Dariga's intervention saved Aliyev from the wrath of an enraged Nazarbayev, who then exiled Aliyev to Vienna as ambassador. Aliyev was able to return only in July 2005, when an appeased Nazarbayev promoted him to First Deputy Foreign Minister, a post he would hold concurrently with the ambassadorship to Austria...
...myriad other ways, career or business ambitions play a role in deciding which candidate influential fund raisers choose to back. They might be on the hunt for an ambassadorship. Or maybe they work in financial services and would like to get in good with an almost certain also-ran who will still be chairing, say, the Senate Banking Committee long after the election is over. Hence the nifty $3,422,982 that Senator Chris Dodd--the Democrat from Connecticut who oversees that key Senate panel--socked away in the last quarter of 2006, the highest of any announced presidential candidate...
...wasn’t always this way. The ambassadorship to the United Kingdom was once seen as a breeding ground for national leaders—five ambassadors went on to the Presidency, four to the Vice Presidency, and ten to serve as Secretaries of State. Benjamin Franklin used his diplomatic posting to France to secure support in the War of Independence. Thomas Jefferson honed his political skills in dealings with the French revolutionary governments while posted there...
...ineffective messenger. They are also on the hunt to replace Jim Towey, director of the President's faith-based initiative, who left saying the effort had "faced a steady headwind from Day One." At one point, say G.O.P. officials, the White House was even inquiring about a possible ambassadorship for White House counsel Harriet Miers, but Bolten issued an unusual public denunciation of reports that she would be replaced. Bolten, 51, hopes to have most of his staff changes in place within a couple of weeks, and his aides are planning a "rollout" of public appearances for him then...