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...ELECTED. NAJAT AL-HAJJAJI, Libya's Ambassador to the United Nations, as head of the 53-nation Human Rights Commission; in Geneva. In a secret ballot, 33 countries voted for al-Hajjaji despite strong opposition from the U.S., which condemned Libya for its human-rights record...
...legs, Ustinov appears onscreen less often than the several roles a year he once averaged. But, when not at his home of 30 years in the Swiss wine-growing village of Bursins, he remains in perpetual motion. In addition to his U.N. work he chairs and partially funds the Geneva-based Global Harmony Foundation, whose projects have included a hospital in Niger for victims of Noma, a flesh-wasting disease, and three girls' schools in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region. "For Nepalese landmine victims we turn out wheelchairs in Kathmandu," says Ustinov. "Come to think of it, I could...
AHMASS FAKAHANY Bullish on the World Born in Cairo and reared in Geneva and London, Fakahany, 44, persuaded his father to send him to Boston University. But work put him back overseas. Fakahany spent 10 years as Merrill Lynch's CFO for Asia and controller for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After boosting revenues last year in areas like foreign exchange as COO of the firm's global-markets and investment-banking business, Fakahany was named CFO for all of Merrill...
...result, to Chomsky, was “totally predictable.” He noted that divestment “is the only thing that’s talked about. Not the main thrust. Nobody talks about the Geneva Conventions, nobody talks about any of the issues that matter...
...strongly feel that this is not a matter of right to speak, because there are certain forms of speech not appropriate,” Fazili said. “When an attorney comes out and calls for violence beyond norms of behavior like Geneva Convention, there must be some checks and balances system...