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...quit; warn about the risks of smoking; enforce bans on cigarette advertising; and raise tobacco taxes. The report also breaks down tobacco consumption and prevention efforts country by country. To date, it is the most comprehensive study of its kind at a global level, said WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan...
...better understand what Clinton is up against. She will have to redefine the role of President. Men have defined the role. Can a woman be the Commander in Chief and feminine at the same time? I believe it's possible. Clinton would be wise to consider Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher as her role models. Crysti Klinker, Seattle...
Life in the glare of White House cameras was no fun for Margaret Truman, the only child of Harry Truman, and her early attempt at a singing career was not much easier. (When a critic panned her "flat" voice, the President warned that if they met, the critic would need a "new nose.") Still, the witty, levelheaded Margaret found her calling in 1980 when she published the best-selling Murder in the White House, the first of a series of mysteries set in the FBI, Supreme Court and other political hot spots...
...back nearly 30 years, and few would have thought that any of the three cities were about to remake the world for the better. In September of 1982, the Hong Kong stock exchange lost a quarter of its value after Margaret Thatcher, flush from her victory in the Falklands War, annoyed the rulers of communist China by foolishly seeming to suggest that Britain might be able to hold on to its colony - which prompted China to insist that it would do no such thing. At the same time, London and New York City were bywords of urban decay...
...charisma than Hillary, could she effectively use whatever charm she might have and still appear presidential? Who was the last female political leader able to inspire the masses? Barbara Jordan never had broad nationwide appeal. Eleanor Roosevelt never ran for office in her own right. Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Robinson, and Benazir Bhutto might have been described as inspirational, but mostly as a result of their strength of character and iron will in the face of war and other major crises...