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...conflict in the Niddle East escalates, Lord Levy, Tony Blair's special envoy to the region, might be expected to be busy. But Levy's time is taken up by another task he performs for Britain's Prime Minister: persuading wealthy patrons to stump up cash [an error occurred while processing this directive] for the Labour Party. Those donors, and the Prime Minister he devotedly serves, were bound to be concerned after Levy was arrested last week. Police are investigating possible breaches of the laws governing party funding; 48 people have already been interviewed by the authorities, who hope...
...Former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin wrote this week that "a different (U.S.) administration, in a different situation, would have sent a special envoy to the region who would shuttle between Syria, Gaza and Jerusalem, trying to calm things down, threatening, promising, fuming - all in order to end the crisis." Instead, he continued, "The worsening violent conflict in the Middle East is a blatant reflection of the weakness of the American partner. At the moment of truth, when Israel needs a powerful third party capable of moving things in the area, it turns out that little beyond the repetitive recitation...
...offices in Gaza, must now find a way to run sanitation systems, water supplies and hospitals with nearly half the power down--in 90° heat. "I'm not sure how depriving half the population of electricity will help Shalit get released," said Alvaro de Soto, the U.N.'s chief envoy to the Middle East. "I really can't imagine what they were thinking...
Last month, when The New York Times Magazine reported that Yale had admitted former Taliban envoy Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former Yale admissions dean Richard Shaw told the Times that a foreigner of similar caliber had applied for “special-student status” and that Yale had “lost him to Harvard...
STEPHEN LEWIS The U.N.'s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa is the author of Race Against Time I suggest Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female President. She has set an astonishing precedent by appointing a Cabinet of exact gender parity. Also Liberia's new woman President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who broke the monolithic boys' club of Africa. She will bring economic and social justice to her country. And Zackie Achmat, who leads the world's most important AIDS activist organization. He has brought hope to millions living with AIDS in Africa...