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...Some two decades later, with an estimated fortune of $40 million, a wife and two children, he'd no sooner ticked off the second goal than he was pushing for the handover from Clark to be fast-tracked so he could attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Peru from...
...historical standards, George W. Bush and Barack Obama were remarkably civil in their Oval Office summit. They had never engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Despite the loathing for Bush that animates many in his party, Obama ran less against the man than his record. Bush, apparently in an undisclosed location throughout Campaign 2008, seldom had a bad word to say about Obama, beyond privately dismissing him as a naive lefty. He called Obama's victory a "triumph of the American story, a testament to hard work, optimism and faith in the enduring promise of our nation." Obama's team...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is not the sort to let a grim outlook undermine his trademark determination. So despite the chorus of warnings against expecting conclusive results from this Saturday's G-20 summit in Washington on the world's crisis-stricken financial system, Sarkozy says he'll accept nothing short of tangible progress toward "moralizing finance markets...
...Even with Mbeki’s removal as South Africa’s president and subsequent loss of clout, the situation has not improved. The SADC as a group has proven to support Mugabe, as it “resolved” the Mugabe-Tsvangirai agreement at its recent summit by suggesting the co-management of home affairs that so clearly favors Zanu-PF. The SADC compromise places all enforcement—army, national defense, and now police, under home affairs—at the access of Mugabe, a brutal dictator. South Africa’s new president, Kgalema Motlanthe...
...where there is so little to sustain. A main hospital in the nation’s capital, Harare Central, closed two weeks ago. In a country with 231 million percent inflation, a nurse cannot even buy a soda with her weekly paycheck, about 12 US cents. At the SADC summit, Tsvangirai warned that one million Zimbabweans face death from starvation this winter. His remarks come with the UN’s announcement Tuesday that four million Zimbabweans are now receiving reduced rations from the World Food Program (WFP) as the UN’s food organization has not received...