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...title of goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. While filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia, Jolie, 26, met former refugees who told her about the UNHCR. When she called requesting information, the organization offered to make her an ambassador on the spot. Rather than immediately accept, Jolie paid her own way to visit Africa, Cambodia and Pakistan to meet relief workers and refugees. Jolie accepted the title last week, and details of her African diary are available on the U.N. website. Besides a bit of vintage Jolie--quotes like "I am already sweating. I lick...
...getting interested in the pump, which is all the heart is, after all. I can remember as a boy when they rang a big bell in Beaufort West at 9 o'clock, and all the colored people had to leave town for the night. My father, however, would not accept any difference between white people and black or colored people. I learned that tolerance from my father, who said to me, "Son, for some people the mills of God grind slowly but surely." And here we are in Mandela's South Africa, and we've seen for ourselves the slow...
...with the Macedonian-speaking majority. And just how many weapons would that be? Sources close to NATO in Skopje said the alliance had arrived at a "credible" goal of gathering at least 3,000 weapons in 15 designated collection points. A spokesman for the Macedonian government said it would accept NATO's estimates, but that is hardly the last word on that central question. A NATO official in Brussels called it "a fool's game" to countenance escalating claims from hard-line elements of the government that as many as 100,000 arms are in rebel hands. Experienced soldiers will...
...they burned your house. They killed people. These men: they will go to trial, they will go to prison. Who will pay for their daily life in prison? The money that you pay in taxation, instead of going to teachers and nurses, will go to prisoners. Do you accept this? What we have discussed is that if we need to repair buildings, the people who burned the buildings will repair them...
Relationships at home and at work can be complicated enough when they are handled separately. But when a man's boss is also his wife, the need to respect each other's abilities and accept differences becomes critical--on many fronts...