Word: bernard
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...been said that man's inhumanity to man is not hatred but indifference [July 9]. Thank God for people like France's Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, who bring the genocide and horrors of Darfur to the forefront. Men and women like him are the true superheroes of our universe...
...blame Clinton for reusing such a powerful story to end her speeches. In speechmaking, if something works, you use it and use it and use it again. (Robert Kennedy so frequently ended his 1968 campaign speeches with his paraphrase of the George Bernard Shaw line, "Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not," that reporters covering his campaign used it as a cue to head for the buses. A fact RFK himself noted by one day just replacing the quote with "Run for the buses...
Notorious for most of his career as a ferociously partisan conservative, French President Nicolas Sarkozy appears to have changed gear since his election in May. First, he named longtime Socialist Bernard Kouchner as his foreign minister, and included a handful of other leftists in his cabinet - a move denounced by the Socialists as taking advantage of personal ambition to divide and conquer the left. (Kouchner was expelled from the party.) Now, detractors charge, Sarkozy is seeking to sway the outcome of the Socialist Party's internal power struggle by off-shoring one of its main contenders, former Finance Minister Dominique...
...night blizzard of lobbying over the new E.U. treaty. One day later, he dined in his office with Condoleezza Rice, on her official first visit to see him. Gushing enthusiastically at each other in front of reporters that evening, Rice dispensed with the usual formalities and called him "Bernard," and Kouchner ended the press conference by planting kisses on both cheeks of his U.S. counterpart...
...short, slight Parisian whose motorcade roared through Khartoum in mid-June was on familiar ground. Bernard Kouchner--France's new Foreign Minister--first went to Sudan three decades ago, during its bloody civil war, while running a little start-up relief group called Doctors Without Borders. With his former organization now a Nobel Laureate, Kouchner is back, trying to end the tragedy in Darfur, where government-supported militias have been rampaging for four years. He told TIME he was outraged by the death toll (upwards of 200,000, by some estimates), saying the world must "yell and make noise" about...