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...Karzai: This is a very important question. Look. I want to leave a legacy for this country. A legacy of democratic transitions. Of power from one person to another. Nelson Mandela set a very good example of completing his four years term and not doing it again. Had he wanted to stand again he would have definitely won. South Africans would have voted for him. But he wanted to set an example of democratic transitions and of new generations emerging. My worry for Afghanistan is whether we will have leaderships emerging in this country to carry on the task...
...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...
...Hundreds of horse industry organizations, racehorse owners, trainers, jockeys and humane societies back the ban. Hollywood has also turned out in full force with more than 50 entertainers - including Bo Derek, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Willie Nelson and Paul McCartney - publicly opposing the slaughter...
...only thanks to her unknown and ineffective trio of opponents that Harris, 49, is nonetheless expected by many analysts and recent polls to win the primary - before undoubtedly losing the November election to incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. "It really has been a disastrous campaign of epic proportions," says Aubrey Jewett, political science professor of University of Central Florida in Orlando. "I don't think you've ever seen anyone fall from grace so fast in their own party...
...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...