Word: annan
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...quoted UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who said, "In today's world, we depend on each other. The business of the United Nations is the business of the world...
...Kofi Annan sent Ghaddafi a letter Wednesday affirming that prosecutors would not set out to undermine or implicate the Libyan government, ostensibly clearing the last stumbling block to a trial. "Of course, the evidence could still implicate Libya," says Dowell. "It's unlikely that the two mid-level Libyan agents charged for the bombing acted alone -- it's been Ghaddafi's fear of being implicated that's kept them out of court so far." And given the Libyan leader's record, all bets are off until the accused are actually in the dock...
ROMESH RATNESAR joined TIME in 1997 and wrote his first story for the magazine on new ways to teach students math. Since then, he has profiled U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, written our initial story on Monica Lewinsky and landed on a missile cruiser off the coast of Bahrain to detail the American military buildup against Iraq. This week Ratnesar returns to the classroom for our cover story on homework. "Reporting on education is always intriguing," he says, "because while we seem able to reach a loose consensus on other social issues, people can't agree on the most basic...
...video clips include segments of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 talking about freedom, actor Whoopi Goldberg on race, Jones discussing music, poet Maya Angelou speaking about the black diaspora and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan discussing Africa. Appiah and Gates also have a clip on the encyclopedia's origins...
...inspectors, the tiny bugs are out, carried away in the baggage when the U.N. left Iraq last December (officials wanted to make sure the Iraqis would never find them). They will probably never go back. Clinton Administration officials are convinced that senior members of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's staff, if not Annan himself, leaked statements of his "concern" about U.S. intelligence assistance in order to smear Butler and put an end to UNSCOM as it is constituted at present...