Word: diplomatic
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...Iraq become the world vs. the terrorists-and perhaps financially, but it would have limited military utility: State expects only 10,000 U.N. peacekeepers. And a deal will be difficult: the U.N. will agree to American control of the military operations, but not civil administration. "No Bremer," an international diplomat told me. "He's not done very well...
...followed the I.A.A.F. rules," says Dahlan Al-Hamad, president of the Qatar Athletic Federation. Though their athletes have been integrated for longer, host France's team includes many foreign-born and naturalized stars, such as long-jump gold medalist Eunice Barber, who came to France after a French diplomat spotted her in her native Sierra Leone. Moroccan-born marathoner Khalid Khannouchi, granted American citizenship in 2000, became the world-record holder two years later. But the track and field apparatus Qatar has gathered as it prepares to host the 2006 Asian Games is a true mixed relay: it includes formerly...
...singular man, but there's no one way to understand him. He's part go-your-own-way artist, part passionate communitarian, part canny salesman, part lyrical architectural philosopher. (One typical pronouncement: "I think design is a defunct word. I curate spaces.") The son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he was born in Tanzania and raised in Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon. He brings to his work the eye of a man who has learned as much from the intricately woven streetscapes of Cairo as from the ideal geometries of Le Corbusier. "I spent my childhood in a profoundly different physical environment...
...White House came out in support of a speech by the arch-hawk Undersecretary of State for Non-Proliferation John Bolton that described Kim as a "tyrant" keeping his people imprisoned in a "living hell" and warned against giving in to Pyongyang's nuclear "extortion." That speech, a U.S. diplomat told TIME, "basically called for regime change," and that's in line with the neo-conservative chorus in Washington who have repeatedly warned against any "appeasement" in the form of security guarantees that keep an odious regime intact. Just last week, key State Department North Korea expert Jack Pritchard...
DIED. Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55, fearless and elegant U.N. representative in Iraq, who promoted peace and nation building in such war-torn countries as East Timor, Kosovo and Cambodia; in the suicide bombing that struck U.N. headquarters, killing 23 and injuring 100; in Baghdad. After a 34-year diplomatic career, the Brazilian diplomat was seen as a possible candidate for the U.N.'s top job. "I can think of no one we could less afford to spare," eulogized U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. De Mello survived the initial blast and was heard calling from the building's debris...