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...Bill, Melinda and Patty began to do things they had sworn they would never do. Although as a nonprofit they are forbidden to lobby for legislation, they are allowed to "educate." They opened an office in Washington and began meeting with politicians all over the world, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, French President Jacques Chirac and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
...Once they passed the dogs, the passengers went through a pat-down search. Then the passengers boarded a bus that took them to another concourse, where an FBI agent and a Miami-Dade homicide detective questioned them individually, he says. The final step in the process involved giving a sworn statement, which was taken down by stenographer...
...NCAA tournament a year ago and would skate in the Olympics just two years hence. “A young man who has really given his future some thought. He has, this one, and he knows it’s hopeless.”* * *Donato had sworn to himself that if he ever made it to Contestants’ Row, he wouldn’t one-dollar-up anybody. He just wasn’t a one-dollar-up kind of guy. But in his second crack at The Item Up For Bid, a set of lamps and some...
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, waited tables to put herself through Harvard, then went on to work as an economist at the World Bank. Now, after a fiercely fought election in her native Liberia, she is set to be sworn in as Africa's first elected female head of state. Johnson-Sirleaf spoke to Claire Soares in Monrovia last week about leadership, healing the country, and childhood dreams. you're the first woman elected to head an african country. What does that mean to you? It means that I have a great responsibility to meet the expectations of Liberian and African...
...came to the rendezvous reluctantly, uncomfortably -- faute de mieux, as if history had given him no choice. Each needed his other, absolutely, in order to succeed -- and each knew it. Each of the men was putting himself at enormous personal risk in the enterprise -- not now from his long-sworn enemy but from those on his own side who would cry betrayal. But each had the armor of his record in the struggle. Just as only a longtime anticommunist like Richard Nixon could convincingly make the opening to China, so only men with the longevity in their conflicts of Rabin...