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NAME: Rosa ("Bus-ta") Parks OCCUPATION: Civil rights elder stateswoman AGE: 85 BEST PUNCH: Claims OutKast exploited her by using her name without permission for a song titled Rosa Parks. Though her name was used only for the song's title, not its lyrics, Parks is asking for it to be removed from all OutKast products...
...furious rate about the meaning of the word genocide. Madeleine Albright, who was Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. in 1994, temporized as the death toll in Rwanda climbed into the hundreds of thousands. It was, as Gourevitch writes, "the absolute low point of her career as a stateswoman." What works first for tragedy will serve later for farce. The casuistry pressed into service to dodge an inconvenient genocide made a later, lighter appearance in Clinton's Jesuitical parsing, under oath, of "is" and "sexual relations...
FROM STUDENT TO A STATESWOMAN...
When the Republicans returned to Washington in 1981 after a four-year hiatus, so too did Luce, resuming her position on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Throughout her last years, the elder stateswoman held court among young Republicans as a kind of inspirational eminence, an unmistakable figure at every conservative function, silver-haired, bright- eyed, dripping pearls and epigrams. Of all the laurels bestowed upon her in recent years, perhaps the most fitting was the Sylvanus Thayer Award, West Point's highest civilian honor, given to those who best embody the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country...
...sense of loss. Indira was not always one of the world's greatest leaders. We saw her as a shy and much loved daughter of her father, a mother to her two sons, a savior of the oppressed people of Bangladesh, military leader of the Indian army, writer, intellectual, stateswoman, politician, party-leader, tyrant, dictator and leader of the largest democracy in the world. We saw her as a Gandhian, dressed in "khadi," or handspun cloth, tirelessly travelling through the villages of India. We saw her at the White House, resplendent in her brocades, charming President Kennedy...