Word: margarete
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HOWEVER TEMPTED THEY may be, active diplomats can't insult world leaders. So the esteemed former Swiss ambassador to the U.S. Edouard Brunner waited until retirement. Brunner, former U.N. mediator in the Middle East, caused a stir in 2002 when he wrote that Margaret Thatcher was solely responsible for the failure of initial talks between Britain and the newly democratic Argentina after the Falklands war, calling the former Prime Minister "vindictive." (Thatcher did not comment.) Brunner...
...sure, Reagan was not the only weakened leader in Venice. Wits went too far in talking about a "lame-duck summit." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected in January, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on the verge of winning a third term, and French President Francois Mitterrand has recouped his popularity. But Prime Ministers Amintore Fanfani of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan are due to step down soon, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is in severe political trouble at home. No wonder that their deliberations in a 17th century monastery on the island...
...ensure that it was as inclusive as possible.” Next year, Cohen will move to Ghana where she will either intern with a lawyers’ group focused on advocacy for women and children or teach at a secondary school or university. —Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
...clock nursing care (he threw up 18 to 20 times a day), all of which kept him going in and out of the hospital. Putman thought she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "When Jake was born, the world as I knew it disappeared," says Putman. "Margaret knows the patient's rights, comes up with a plan, tells you what you need to do and somehow makes it happen," Putman says. "But most important, she gives you hope." Jacob, now 14, is able to participate fully in school and recently traveled to Europe...
...will help them get it. "I called so many agencies looking for help, and SKIP was the only one that even called me back," she says. But there is a waiting list of thousands more families that SKIP, on its shoestring budget, cannot take on without additional resources. Margaret hopes one day to be able to build a clinically staffed residential community. "These families need a respite; they never get a break. They need to be supported in this effort," she says. "Yet it is just indescribable how hard we make it for them. There is so much need wherever...