Word: samanthas
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...Success, endorsements and business acumen have provided security for Kendall and husband Shayne (since Sydney, the couple have welcomed a daughter, Samantha). Those early years of "taking off overseas, sleeping in cars and parks" to pursue sport have helped Kendall keep her ego in check and made her more appreciative of the spoils; a close-knit family and support crew and motherhood, she says, have kept her grounded and equipped her to deal with public attention. But without a plan or goal, like an Olympic campaign, Kendall says she begins to lose self-worth. The next challenge is finding...
...Janjaweed fighters, as Prof. Eric Reeves of Smith College has proposed; to use U.N. expertise to double or triple the anemically small monitoring team responsible for reporting on “human rights violations” in a region the size of France, as Kennedy School of Government Professor Samantha Power has advocated; even to remove Sudan from its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission, as common sense would dictate. But Annan will do none of these, nor will he recognize the genocide by its proper name: to do so would obligate him to take action. Indeed...
Sources: Dr. Howard Eisenson, Duke Diet & Fitness Center; Samantha Heller, N.Y.U. Medical Center; American Dietetic Association
Among those included are plenty whose importance is a lot more subtle than bin Laden's or the Pope's. Bernard Lewis has been teaching since 1938, yet his theories on the failure of the Islamic world have only lately shifted the thinking of American policymakers. Bernard Kouchner and Samantha Power--one a French doctor, the other a U.S. scholar--have challenged us to understand that a nation's sovereignty does not give it the right to behave abominably inside its borders...
...have all been bystanders to genocide," Samantha Power wrote in the opening of her 2002 book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. "The crucial question is why." Combining archival research with her own reporting from the killing fields of Rwanda and Bosnia, Power, a former freelance journalist and war correspondent, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, set out to explain why the U.S., at the height of its power, failed to stop the major genocides of the 20th century. Power's study examined U.S. responses to such horrors as the Ottoman massacre of the Armenians...