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...fast-growing entrepreneurialism - it's owned by a South African who has emigrated to Mozambique. For $50 an hour, Jaime Sumbane with his Panama hat and Dona Flor cigar will take you on a tour of the city. Driving through Maputo, the potholes are still there, even outside Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel's house, but foreign investment, most notably from the Chinese government, which sent the funds - and the prisoners - to build a new Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a conference center, has put the possibility back into Africa's former salsa and cocktail capital. Hollywood...
...What is likely to have even a far greater impact in the coming decades is the quiet work that he is doing under the auspices of the Clinton Foundation. At an international conference in 2002, Nelson Mandela asked Clinton to attempt what governments have found impractical, if not impossible: Find a way to provide AIDS drugs to the more than 40 million HIV-positive people in the world - 90% of them in developing countries. Clinton recruited Ira Magaziner, the architect of Hillary's disastrous health care effort, to begin negotiating deals with the same pharmaceutical industry that she had demonized...
...colonization of the South Pacific archipelago; in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand. Though her post was ceremonial, Te Ata, the sixth Maori ruler, worked to raise the profile of Maori abroad, attending the coronations of foreign sovereigns and meeting with world leaders like President Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela...
...colonization of the Southwest Pacific archipelago; in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand. Although her post was ceremonial, Te Ata, the sixth Maori ruler, worked to raise the profile of Maori abroad, attending the coronations of foreign sovereigns and meeting with world leaders like President Bill Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela...
Alas, statesmen can't be wished into existence. In 31/2 years of covering Iraq, I have not come across a single leader who has seemed able to rise above petty political or sectarian interests. Never mind a Mandela; there's not even an Iraqi Hamid Karzai. The beleaguered Afghan President has more credibility with his people than any Iraqi politician can honestly claim. In the absence of statesmen, I fear the sectarian furies that have been unleashed in Iraq will hack away at the last vestiges of sense and decency and drag the country into a final fight...