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...Under your predecessor, New Zealand was widely seen as a solid global citizen with an independent foreign policy, but also perhaps as a nation content to play a very minor role in world affairs. Do you agree with that characterisation, and do you have a different vision for New Zealand's place in the world? I'm not sure I would totally agree with that. I think most New Zealanders would have seen Helen Clark's greatest strength, outside her ability to manage in our Mixed Member Proportional system, as being the role she played on the international stage...
...pilot of a U.S. version is already in the can, and a Russian series is set to air early next year. With a live arena show about to tour the globe, the aim is to "create the world's biggest motoring entertainment brand," says Wayne Garvie, director of content and production at BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster's commercial...
...interim director last year. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Despite coming from the other side of the political aisle, Leach publicly supported Obama during the presidential election. Leach declined to discuss the content of the meetings themselves, as they were understood to be off-the-record. He wrote in an e-mailed statement that, while he did not know the reasoning behind Obama’s choice to personally send him to the G-20, he was “exceptionally impressed with the economic team...
...1990s, Cuban co-founded the company that would become Broadcast.com, which started as a web site to access live sports games online. The company went on to broadcast other content - including Bill Clinton's testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair and a Victoria's Secret fashion show. Cuban and his partner took Broadcast.com public and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999 for $5.7 billion in stock...
...tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land" [Nov. 17]. On election night we watched as Americans from Virginia, home of the capital of the Confederacy, to California voted for a President not on the basis of the color of his skin but on the content of his character. Now we know what King saw from the mountaintop. We have overcome. Alan B. Posner, ROYAL OAK, MICH...