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Rafiq Hariri was a bold, self-made billionaire but a prudent politician. Syrian troops occupied his country and bossed its politics, yet during two terms as Lebanon's dynamic Prime Minister, he was careful never to oppose Syria head on. When he was summoned to Damascus last summer to endorse changes in his country's constitution that would allow Lebanon's Syria-controlled puppet President to remain in power, he bowed to the demand despite his strong opposition. When he returned to Beirut with his arm in a white sling, wags joked that he had undergone a painful arm twisting...
...candidate who can bridge that divide-someone, say, like that fellow from Hope. But Bill Clinton is apparently not the top choice for the job. A TIME/CNN poll conducted last week shows that Americans see Powell as the most likely unifier, a figure who transcends race, not a politician who exploits...
...says Schabert, author of Mitterrand et la Réunification Allemande. University of Nantes historian Frédéric Bozo, whose broader work on Mitterrand's foreign policy at the end of the cold war will be released in May, also comes to a positive judgment. "As a politician he could be sneaky, but as a diplomat he was straightforward, coherent and underestimated," he says. "In that he's like Nixon...
...prominent Israeli politician Natan Sharansky addressed the link between state security and human rights in two speeches yesterday to enthusiastic crowds...
Always a bombastic self-promoter, Hanfstaengl soon became a close friend of the Fuhrer, reportedly delighting the rising politician with his Wagner renditions. By 1934, Hanfstaengl was supervising the Nazi Party’s foreign press office. He even acquired a nickname from his boss—“Putzi”—a moniker that would stick...