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...Johnson-Sirleaf worked for years at the World Bank and within the United Nations. As Liberia’s finance minister, she narrowly escaped death when 13 cabinet ministers were executed by firing squad in a government purge in 1980. She also earned the moniker “The Iron Lady” for her fearlessness in challenging the warlord Charles Taylor for Liberia’s presidency...
Drugs Over Easy Inventor: Deborah Adler Availability: Now, at Target pharmacies To Learn More: designforall.target.com From the mass retailer that put Philippe Starck styles in dorm rooms comes another evolution of design, this time for the medicine cabinet. Called ClearRx, Target's new prescription-drug packaging system - originally conceived by a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City - turns the traditional amber-colored cylinder on its head. ClearRx bottles are not only upside down but also flattened out, so patients can read labels without rotating the package. Colored rings - say, blue for Mom, green...
...moderates to join her in a compromise plan to comply with the decision. That deal left conservatives without the votes to push through a constitutional amendment they sought to effectively overrule the court's edict. To get G.O.P. backing for her proposals, she has appointed several Republicans to her cabinet, including former Governor Mike Hayden, who serves as secretary of wildlife and parks...
...APPOINTED. SHINZO ABE, 51, as Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, and TARO ASO, 65, as Foreign Minister; as part of a cabinet shuffle by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi; in Tokyo. Abe, a former secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Aso, a veteran lawmaker, are both political thoroughbreds and the grandsons of former Prime Ministers. The elevation of the pair, each known for their assertive stances on Japan's relations with its Asian neighbors, sparked concerns in China and South Korea, whose relationships with Japan have soured over recent border disputes and lingering bitterness about Japan's past...
...Kenya led, last year, to the election of a "transitional federal government." But that body is already split by a rivalry between the President and Prime Minister, on the one hand, who are holed up in the small town of Jowhar, and several warlords, some of whom are also cabinet ministers, based in Mogadishu. With no way of controlling his own ministers, let alone the bandits who wander Somalia's plains or the pirates that ply her seas, Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi has asked for help to stop the piracy and monitor the country's coastline. "We cannot handle...