Word: leaders
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...Senate, Kennedy developed a reputation as a leader on social policy issues, championing reforms in areas such as health care, education, and immigration, as well as leading multiple committees, including, most recently, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions...
...President Faust explained it pretty well at Commencement: he’s been a leader on all kinds of issues, specifically on higher education, which is particularly important to Harvard,” said Clymer,who is a former Crimson president...
...Burma The Lady Remains a Captive It could have been worse. Burmese opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will spend 18 more months under house arrest as a prisoner of the country's military junta for violating the terms of an earlier sentence after an American man swam uninvited to her lakeside home in May. The good news: the latest sentence, by military decree, is shorter than the maximum of five years in prison. Suu Kyi will be confined long enough to ensure that she is not a player in Burma's 2010 elections, which are expected...
...Islamabad Dead ...? U.S. and Pakistani officials strongly believe that Baitullah Mehsud, the secretive leader of Pakistan's Taliban, was killed in a U.S. drone attack on Aug. 5 in South Waziristan, despite assurances from a Taliban spokesman that the warlord was "safe." Pakistani officials are awaiting results of DNA analysis comparing the remains with those of Mehsud's brother, who was killed last October. Analysts suspect the Taliban could be denying the death until a replacement for Mehsud is chosen. Meanwhile, two senior Taliban leaders, potential Mehsud successors, were reportedly killed in subsequent days--possibly in a feud for control...
...confrontational approach will yield results against a government willing to deploy overwhelming force to maintain its grip on power. Over the weekend, in fact, opposition activists were dismayed to hear reports that former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had called for unity and for all Iranians to follow Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei's orders to end the turmoil. Coming a little over a month after the influential cleric and Ahmadinejad rival had openly questioned June's disputed election results, the comments suggested that the opposition movement could be losing one of its most crucial establishment backers...