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Bush was openly derisive of international institutions for much of this term, but the crisis in Iraq has forced him to try to reach out. In June, when he called former Missouri Senator John Danforth to offer him the post of U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Danforth hesitated. "I told him, 'Mr. President, the book on you is that you're a unilateralist and the U.N. isn't important,'" Danforth says. "And his response to me was, 'No, that's not right. It's very important to use the U.N. to establish better relations with the rest of the world...
...policy toward Sudan has been focused on ending the country's long-running war in the south, which has killed more than 2 million people. Prodded to take action by an unlikely alliance of the religious right and the Congressional Black Caucus, Bush appointed former Missouri Senator John Danforth as a special peace envoy to Sudan and pressured Khartoum and the southern rebels to put down their weapons. But just as a peace deal looked imminent, Darfur exploded. Rather than risk a collapse of the deal in the south, the Administration--and much of the international community--chose to avoid...
...prime responsibility of the government of Sudan is not to brutalize its own people, not to bomb people, not to arm militias to attack people, not to support people who engage in the burning of villages and rape." JOHN C. DANFORTH, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, calling for sanctions against the Sudanese government over the conflict in Darfur...
...then that Benson rediscovered her passion for music. After her mother’s full recovery, Benson went to Los Angeles to cut demos and play clubs, hoping for a recording contract. Finally, she clicked with China Danforth, head honcho of DKG Music, a budding California-based label that was willing to put its money on Benson’s ethereal, hip hop sound...
...meantime, the Harvard name isn’t out of Benson’s life quite yet. Danforth left Harvard Business School in 2001 to start his record label, which is distributed by Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Records, and staffed by Harvard alums Ngozi Mba ’96 and Adam Sexton...