Word: cuellar
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Sullenberger joins the ranks of past recipients, including United Nations Secretaries General Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Javier Perez de Cuellar, as well as Nobel Laureates Desmond Tutu and Elie Wiesel, and actor Denzel Washington...
...coming second with 25% - Dukakis got 72 delegates and Jackson 67. To get the delegate count she needs to make a Texas win count, most observers believe Clinton needs a 60%-plus win; to get that, she must hope that 70% of Latinos break for her. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar from Laredo, an early supporter of Clinton and a pragmatic politician - as a state representative he supported candidate George W. Bush in 2000 - says he is supporting Clinton because she can hold Hispanic moderates in the general election...
...wage. Rodriguez had served seven years in Congress before losing his seat in the neighboring 28th congressional district in 2004 after DeLay's redistricting plan anchored the district in Laredo, away from Rodriguez's home base in San Antonio. The new district favored Laredo resident and conservative Democrat Henry Cuellar, who beat Rodriguez by just 58 votes in the primary. Rodriguez challenged incumbent Congressman Cuellar again this year in the March primary and used a picture of President Bush hugging Cuellar to try to turn the vote his way, but he lost again. Early in this latest campaign, he waffled...
...political process," wrote Justice David Souter said. But in Wednesday's 5-4 decision, signed by Justice Anthony Kennedy, Texas was ordered to redraw the map and undo the split that had divided Laredo between Bonilla's West Texas district and that of Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar. The addition of Democratic-leaning Latino voters to Bonilla's district could make him vulnerable in the next election. The opinion also suggested possible changes for the district represented by Democrat Lloyd Doggett, whose "fajita" district stretches from Austin to the Mexican border. In a redraw that would presumably reduce the number...
...government diplomacy has failed. Annan has proved singularly adept on that front - indeed, the ringing endorsements of his second term and complete absence of hostility from any quarter speaks to his almost implausible popularity across all geopolitical boundaries. Of course his immediate predecessors - Boutros-Gali, Javier Perez de Cuellar and Kurt Waldheim - all performed the diplomatic role with dour sobriety, Annan has reinvented the role in keeping with the founding principles of the United Nations...