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Bertini is a novelty in many other respects. A lifelong self-styled "Republican feminist," she was initially backed by the Administration of George Bush the Elder for the U.N. job, but she also won the endorsement of the Clinton Administration after her first five-year term. Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, urged Clinton to keep her in Rome after her first term. "She's shown extraordinary ability with no sign of partisan activity, and as a result, she's been enormously effective," Leahy says. When she took over, Bertini had never been to Africa and did not speak...
...started his career in marketing. After a decade, eager to work for himself, he and two partners bought Hotel Ambassadeur, the first property in what would become Sarova Hotels. As a successful businessman, he feels a responsibility to the lagging tourism industry; and as a new grandfather and community elder in Kirinyaga, he is conscious of the legacy he will leave. "In some small way," he says, "we want to contribute to Kenya's future. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow." Sitting in the Ngata dining room with his arm around Philip, a beaming six-year...
...Building, across the street from the White House--he, like Al Gore before him, plans to spend most of his time in the one closest to the President. That may be where the comparison between the two men ends. Unlike Gore and most other previous Vice Presidents, including the elder George Bush, Cheney is not treating this job as a stepping-stone. After briefly flirting with a campaign for the presidency in 1995, Cheney--who just turned 60 and has survived four heart attacks--has ruled out running on his own. As the current President happily explained to a group...
Although Matalin is close to the President, she remains even closer to his father, whom, friends say, she called almost every day during the 2000 campaign. That partly explains how she ended up as an adviser to the man who was the elder Bush's Defense Secretary. It was Cheney's daughter Liz who called Matalin after the election and asked if she would consider working for the Vice President. Matalin jumped at the chance...
...escape the curse of juniorhood, that terrible first act of hostility that certain men commit against their own sons, that row of hoops set up in the nursery for he who would follow. (Attention, newborn: Be me, or fall short--it's up to you.) For the congenitally modest elder Bush, naming a child in honor of himself may have proved too much, so he pulled up one name shy, an early act of compassionate conservatism...