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...PUTTING GREEN In office, Ike reportedly played 800 rounds of golf; this '54 addition probably helped...
...lights out to avoid detection. Supervisory agent Mark White stood on the bow, peering through night-vision goggles that revealed an empty sea clear out to Coronado island, 8 miles (13 km) away. Hill, director of the CBP's marine-interdiction unit in San Diego, busied himself scanning the green squiggles on the radar screen and radioed to agents in helicopters hovering above the coastline. "They're the bird dogs," Hill says of the choppers. "We're the hunters...
...developing world will look to Manuel to speak for them, as he often does. The humbled leaders of rich nations are likely to listen. "There's not a single finance minister in the rich world today that will not take a call from Trevor Manuel," says Pippa Green, author of the Manuel biography Choice, Not Fate...
Books have been written about how 27 years in jail prepared Nelson Mandela for reconciliation and not revenge. Prison bestowed a similar pragmatism on Manuel. "He used to fight the prison authorities about everything on principle," says biographer Green. "But when he saw some of his fellow inmates were basically children, he realized he had to negotiate with the officials to try to help these boys. It taught him mature leadership. He had his objective, achieving it was what mattered and that meant being practical." Unlike many of his contemporaries, Manuel made an easy transition from revolutionary to democrat. Released...
...displays the same pragmatism in world affairs. While many of Manuel's developing-world counterparts spurn the "Washington consensus" of the World Bank and IMF, Green says "he uses these organizations as a chance to get powerful leaders to listen to him." It works, in part because he is so good at convincing people that change is possible. "I come from South Africa, where at various points in our history it seemed like we would not be able to resolve our problems," he says. "But we did. How? We all had to give up something." That...