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While many remember with fondness the special convocation for Nelson Mandela or the charm of King Abdullah of Jordan, a few guests, like Mahuad, could be accused of using the University's name for unsavory ends. For example, this past spring, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, touted as a progressive woman leader, gave a public address at the Institute of Politics. While many in the audience gushed at how wonderful it was to see a female head of government from South Asia, no one mentioned another Bangladeshi proponent of women's rights, Kalpana Chakma...
...pair of gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, she has wowed sports fans with graceful and tenacious swordswomanship, adding three world championship titles to a list of international laurels. Away from her foils, the stunning 28-year-old has enhanced her celebrity status with flourishes of wit and charm that have made her a star with a larger French public that doesn't know an epee from its elbow...
...jogging routes, pickup trucks and heifers, it was the reporters on the ground who pressed Bush to clarify his mushy position on abortion and whether he could prove, given the absence of official documents, that he had actually put in all his time in the National Guard. The charm vanished, the lips pinched, discussion ended. As he so often says when crossed, who are we to judge what's in his heart...
What, then, is the charm of the dirt road? I don't know. But it feels better somehow than a paved road. Actually, I do know: What's wrong with a paved road is that it brings in more traffic, more people, more houses, and maybe, in the fullness of time, a development, a commercial strip, a shopping mall...
...build and develop our country. Chief among the latter must stand HARRY OPPENHEIMER and his family; that they also fought in a particular manner for the former sets them apart in the gallery of South African patriots. I shall remember Harry as a man of exquisite grace and charm, a person with a simplicity and directness that was disarming in its spontaneity, and one who was accessible way beyond what was assumed about a person in his position. His support for democratic and philanthropic causes was in my experience always without hesitation and reserve. His contribution to building a partnership...