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...favorite for this year is former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari,? said Stein Toennesson, director of the Peace Research Institute-Oslo, who gave the statesman a 50% chance of taking the prize for his role brokering a peace between the the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian government. ?He has been involved in several peace processes in his life, in Libya, the Balkan; he has a special role in Kosovo; but the main reason is the role he played in Indonesia...
...whose 56-month term as foreign minister of South Korea ranks among the longest in the nation’s history, is widely lauded as a model statesman, adept at building consensus...
...struggles as much to accept Amin’s evil as he does to act on his moral misgivings. Garrigan finds himself fallen into a world of moral relativism, highlighted by the character of Nigel Stone (Simon McBurney, “Friends With Money”), a British statesman. Stone is a slimy diplomat whose rhetoric is filled with political maneuverings, and Garrigan is quick to call him out on it. But once contrasted to Amin’s ruthless megalomania, Garrigan is forced to re-evaluate Stone and the lesser evils he stands for. The story is gripping...
...Cleese is the elder statesman of the group, Gilliam the member who carved the most distinctive post-Python career, and Chapman the figure of poignancy - the homosexual alcoholic who was dead at 48. His demise touched all the survivors, but it didn't stanch their biting wit. In fact, now that he's dead, they make fun of Graham a lot. On the BBC2 show 30 Years of Monty Python, Cleese intones: "And I'd just like to say for the whole gang, except for the dead one of course, how pleased we are..." And in a 1998 reunion...
Chvez considers his bravado his chief asset, but critics say it too often makes it hard to take him seriously as a statesman. While Ahmadinejad wowed U.S. audiences with his verbal dexterity last week, Chvez seemed only to enhance his reputation for gratuitous Bush baiting. After Chvez's speech at the General Assembly, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, called the performance "a comic-strip approach to international affairs." A product of Venezuela's llanos, or rural plains, Chvez patterns his style after the straight-talking llaneros (cowboys) he grew up with...