Word: diplomat
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...begun to make noises about Japan picking up more of the tab-U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters last month "we would hope they would be able to spend more." But this is unlikely. Even as staunch a conservative as Hisahiko Okazaki, a former diplomat and an Abe foreign-policy adviser, says that Japan should focus on cementing the U.S. alliance, not on pursuing its own military destiny...
...told reporters in Sydney before embarking on a trans-Pacific flight last Wednesday, is Alternative Prime Minister of Australia. As he fronts this week's ALP national conference for the first time as leader, Rudd will be playing to his party's supreme policy-making body. The former diplomat and high-level technocrat is not a creature of Labor's factions or union base, which makes him stronger outside the party than within it. If the polls are accurate, people are wild about Rudd, who is trying to convince them that Labor will provide a more prosperous future while...
...wife, at ANU and worked his way through school doing menial jobs. But when asked questions about his professional career, Rudd has a tendency to overplay his breadth of experience. A week after he became leader, Rudd's eight years in Parliament had stretched to "nearly a decade." A diplomat from 1981 to 1988, Rudd was sometimes based in Canberra and could not have "spent seven or eight years representing Australian embassies overseas," as he told one interviewer. Rudd left the foreign service to work in Queensland politics as a Labor adviser. He was that state's top bureaucrat when...
...back to haunt him. There's insecurity, too. Rudd is quick to inform people that he knows about life on the land, about bushfires and milking cows. "I grew up in the bush myself," Rudd is fond of reminding rural folk, even though he usually speaks like a cultured diplomat...
...really excited about, is extremely important,” says Joe R. Posner, who runs the Brown Concert Agency, adding “That said, at Brown, I’m pretty sure everyone knows who The Flaming Lips and The Roots are.” But, ever the diplomat, Posner says of Third Eye Blind: “I know everybody liked those songs when I was in 6th grade.” Indeed, for 3EB, 6th grade was a good year. “The only negative reaction I’ve heard is that they...