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...Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, waited tables to put herself through Harvard, then went on to work as an economist at the World Bank. Now, after a fiercely fought election in her native Liberia, she is set to be sworn in as Africa's first elected female head of state. Johnson-Sirleaf spoke to Claire Soares in Monrovia last week about leadership, healing the country, and childhood dreams. you're the first woman elected to head an african country. What does that mean to you? It means that I have a great responsibility to meet the expectations of Liberian and African...
...same thing for 50 years," he says with a shrug. "Just a bigger scale. Same damn thing." Having picked up a degree in geological engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Van Dyke got his start in the dusty fields of Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1951. His mentor, wildcatter S.D. Johnson, taught him the basics: find a farmer with promising land and get him to lease you the rights, then find an oil company willing to drill. Van Dyke hitchhiked to Fort Worth and Dallas to make his first deals. "I had about $500 to my name," he says. "I slept...
DIED. WILLIAM BRYANT, 94, trailblazing D.C. lawyer who became the first black chief judge of a U.S. federal district court; in Washington. One of the first black Assistant U.S. Attorneys, he was appointed to the federal bench by Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Strikingly gracious despite having endured virulent racism early in his career, he was modest, averse to media attention and passionate about the ability of lawyers to achieve justice. If not for lawyers, he once said, "I'd still be three-fifths...
...prices seem likely over the long haul. Yet they are anything but certain over the next few years. Any dramatic rise from here would almost certainly trigger a global economic slowdown that would cut demand and send energy prices--and energy stocks--sharply lower. Ed Maraccini, portfolio manager with Johnson Family Funds, says he will get interested again when oil drops below $50. At that level, he says, global demand is sustainable, and economies can grow...
...kind of like virginity. It's hard to get back." JOHN ZOGBY, pollster, on Bush's chances of regaining public trust, based on the experiences of previous embattled Presidents such as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon...