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...society. He decides what people - their pain as well as their day-to-day roles - are worth. Appointed 25 years ago to distribute about $200 million to Vietnam vets poisoned by the herbicide Agent Orange, he has become the Solomon of settlement. As head of the 9/11 fund, he held town-hall meetings and met one on one with countless grieving relatives to explain his bottom line on the lost years of mothers and fathers and daughters and sons. "He recognized the astounding amount of sensitivity of the assignment," says former Senator Charles Hagel, who supported Feinberg for the position...
...debate, more than any other organization, but may end up losing its fight to keep any form of public option from ending up in the final legislation. And last week, the Chamber was the victim of an elaborate media hoax, when activists put out a fake press release and held a phony news conference announcing the Chamber's supposed shift in its controversial climate change stance...
...turn, called the new accord proof that Obama's hemispheric doctrine of "dialogue and engagement" can work. The more imperious Latin America policy practiced by past U.S. administrations often actively supported military coups in the region. The agreement is also a rebuff to the congressional conservatives who have held up key diplomatic appointments (including Shannon's as Ambassador to Brazil) to protest Obama's designation of Zelaya's ouster as a coup...
...foundation always been successful at stopping people from using his name or likeness. Four years ago, the organization tried to block the Belgravia Gallery in London from selling around 100 lithographs of Robben Island - the prison off Cape Town where Mandela was held - which the gallery said had been made and signed by Mandela. The foundation maintains that the works are unauthorized reproductions and that Mandela's signatures are fakes. But Mandela's team failed to prevent the gallery from selling limited editions of several sketches and two handprints for prices starting at more than $10,600 apiece...
...whether to block or back a project is often subjective and a matter of taste. In December, a Clint Eastwood-directed movie, Invictus (meaning "unconquered" in Latin), will be released, starring Morgan Freeman as Mandela. The film tells the story of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was held in South Africa, and how Mandela skillfully embraced the sport and united (albeit briefly) his divided nation behind a victorious, overwhelmingly white team. The foundation is allowing this project to go forward. Perhaps it's because the movie is based on the book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game...