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...office to ask him how many classroom hours he would need to graduate. When McBride told him, Tillman shot back that it was McBride's job to make sure he didn't do any more or any less. "I had a weird reaction," says McBride. "I almost said, 'Yes, sir'--except he had that surfer hairdo...
DIED. RATU SIR KAMISESE MARA, 83, founding father of Fiji who helped guide the Pacific island to independence after 96 years of British colonial rule; in Suva, Fiji. An important U.S. ally during the cold war, he served as Prime Minister for 25 years before becoming President in a 1993 coup but was forced to retire in 2000 after an armed gang held the Prime Minister and Cabinet hostage for 56 days...
...with the proud bearing of a hereditary high chief, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who has died at 83 from the effects of a stroke, towered over Fijian politics for three decades. Trained as a civil servant under British colonial rule, he helped draft a constitution that gave equal status to ethnic Fijians and Indians and in 1970 became the independent nation's first Prime Minister. After a 1987 military coup ousted Mara's left-wing political rival, he resumed the prime ministership and assented to a new constitution favoring ethnic Fijians. (He later apologized to Indo-Fijians for doing...
...writer-cum-candidate, sporting white sneakers, a black leather jacket and a baseball cap, accosts customers. “Excuse me sir, are you registered to vote in Somerville or Cambridge...
While his friends Michael Somare and Mekere Morauta became prime ministers of Papua New Guinea, lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner SIR ANTHONY SIAGURU spent most of his career working on the sidelines of public life. There - courtly, charming, endlessly energetic - he often seemed to be everywhere at once. In a country increasingly distrustful of its leaders, Siaguru's civic-mindedness and stubborn integrity earned him vast respect...