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...Obama has captivated the American nation and my own heart. On the day he was elected, for just a moment, I wished I lived in a country where I could proudly proclaim that he was my President. As the world watches his every move, I just hope Obama remembers one thing: Yes, he can. Anna Conneely, Sydney...
...years before Key could extricate himself from the world of finance, and he entered Parliament in 2002; he became the party's leader four years later. And on Nov. 8, the political career launched by that call culminated in a resounding election victory for Key and National, ending nine years of Labour rule under Helen Clark. On the night, hundreds of supporters gathered outside Key's mansion in the affluent Auckland suburb of Parnell. "That doesn't normally happen in this country," says Slater, "particularly in an area where the residents are not very demonstrative." Though he may not score...
...United Nations ages ago, before it was even fashionable," said the South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka of Miriam Makeba, who died Nov. 10 at 76. The first African woman to win a Grammy, Makeba, known affectionately as "Mama Africa," traveled to New York City in 1963. She appeared before the U.N.'s special committee on apartheid to plead for intervention in South Africa. Her nation repaid Makeba by exiling her until 1990, when President Nelson Mandela personally asked her to return...
OUSTED After three terms as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Labour Party leader Helen Clark, 58, lost the nation's Nov. 8 elections to National Party leader John Key. Majority power in parliament shifted to Key's party, resulting in Clark's resignation from her post as Labour Party head three days later. Saddened colleagues praised Clark's years in office, during which she boosted New Zealand's economy by cutting debt and building huge surpluses...
...Truman placed his THE BUCK STOPS HERE SIGN (the reverse read I'M FROM MISSOURI). And while its darker hours saw Richard Nixon's secret taping sessions and, in adjoining rooms, Bill Clinton's trysts with Monica Lewinsky, the Oval Office is where the President comes to draw the nation together--as Ronald Reagan did after the Challenger disaster, or George W. Bush after 9/11...