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...Anecdotal reports from the region suggest Ross's rebuttal went over well with middle-class Arab audiences. It was helped, no doubt, by the fact that bin Laden had lashed out intemperately at moderate Arab regimes and at the United Nations. Calling Kofi Annan a "criminal," to take just one example, sounds deranged, even to anti-Western firebrands in the developing world. The terrorist, whose propaganda broadcast when the U.S. bombing began had been a home-run in the Arab world, now sounded almost incoherent, teeing himself up for Ross to calmly point out bin Laden's political isolation. Even...
...United Nations has always been an ambitious organization, and Annan, in a quiet way, an ambitious man. But in the decade since the end of the cold war, it has been an organization that has time and again put humanity ahead of ambition. Instead of pursuing the path of diplomatic agreement--a path where much gets discussed and nothing really changes--the organization has tried to stop some of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the day. Generally, it has failed. In Rwanda, Srebrenica, East Timor, Kosovo and elsewhere, its influence was not great enough to stop genocide, ethnic cleansing...
Increasingly, the U.N. has been there to pick up the pieces. And when the organization and Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize last week, it was as much an acknowledgment of what they have done to repair the mistakes of the past decade as a recognition of how they had tried--and failed--to prevent those mistakes from unfolding. In Kosovo and East Timor, the U.N. has begun to turn nation building into a science, learning how to construct functioning governments and societies in countries torn apart by hate. It is a skill the U.N. may soon be called...
Even before the announcement last Friday, preparations were under way at U.N. headquarters for the possibility of a Nobel. Annan had been in the running once before, in 1998, but U.N. officials had been worried that an award then, while Annan was still in his first term as Secretary-General, would have made him too "saintly" to stand a chance at a second. But this year the stars seemed perfectly aligned...
...talent while still in his twenties before moving to Hollywood, where he often collaborated with writer Neil Simon and producer Ray Stark, churning out hit films such as The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Turning Point (1977) and Steel Magnolias (1989). AWARDED. To the U.N. and its Secretary-General, KOFI ANNAN, 63, the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work for "a better organized and more peaceful world"; in Oslo. Annan, who first took up the post in 1997, has already been elected to serve a second term. ELECTED. NANCY PELOSI, 61, feisty San Francisco Congresswoman, to the position...