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Peace Kofi Annan...
...last summer, as Kofi Annan sipped a beer and watched the sun set over Ghana, the land of his birth, he began reflecting on the men he had encountered in the palaces, fortresses and official homes that hold the leaders of the world. On the whole, he observed, they weren't particularly nice people. There were exceptions, of course--and he listed a few favorites--but by and large the act of rising to a position of high political power, he said, demanded a willingness to put ambition before humanity. Annan stopped for a moment and stared off into...
...enthusiasm than their U.S. counterparts for such a risky deployment, and a post-Taliban Afghanistan remains a geopolitical chessboard on which the interests of Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the U.S. all compete. Even as it balanced all of these competing interests, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the U.N. would have to move with uncharacteristic nimbleness to avert a tragedy which, he said, would make the Congo and the Balkans look like child's play...
...Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appealed for $584 million in emergency aid for Afghanistan, and American President George W. Bush announced that the U.S. would donate up to $320 million in economic assistance. Last week the World Food Program sent more than 700 tons of food by road to Kabul; the group says it will need to ship in 372,000 tons over the course of the winter. But since the middle of September, foreign aid workers have been forced out of the country, and supervising the distribution of food aid is becoming more difficult. The Bush Administration is anxious...
...Plenty has happened since the birth of the U.N. to mock that hope. But that has not deterred Kofi Annan from making it his life's work to revive and sustain it in the face of the pervasive cynicism that pervades his world. People have been beatified for less...