Michael A. Sheehan
MICHAEL A. SHEEHAN has held the following positions: New York City Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism; Assistant Secretary General in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations; Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism ... [... more]
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985 and a member of the National Security Council during the Reagan administration. She was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the founder of ... [... more]
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David Michaelis
David Michaelis is the author of two bestselling biographies, including N. C. Wyeth (available from Harper Perennial), which won the Ambassador Book Award for Biography and Autobiography, given by the English-Speaking Union of the United States. ... [... more]
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Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, the first woman ever to hold the position. Her distinguished career in government includes positions in the National Security Council, on Capitol Hill, and as U.S. ambassador ... [... more]
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Laura Bush
Laura Bush has always been passionate about reading. An Honorary Ambassador for the UN Literary Decade, she hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Global Literacy in 2006 to encourage international cooperation and build free societies ... [... more]
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Mauricio Obregon
Mauricio Obregón was a Colombian ambassador to the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the O.A.S. He was founder and president of the Caribbean Naval Museum in Cartagena, and a member of the academies of history of Colombia and of Spain. He retraced, under . [... more]
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes is the author of more than twenty books, including Happy Families, The Eagle's Throne, This I Believe, The Death of Artemio Cruz, and The Old Gringo. He served as Mexico's ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977. He has received ... [... more]
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Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Thomas J. Watson Jr. was chief executive officer of IBM from 1956 to 1971 and, after his retirement, President Carter's ambassador to Moscow. He was named chairman emeritus and served as a member of IBM's advisory board until his death. Peter ... [... more]
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Faye Wattleton
Faye Wattleton consults with American business and political leaders and with heads of state, ambassadors, and cabinet ministers around the world on family planning issues. She holds fifteen honorary degrees, is a member of the National Women's ... [... more]
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Journey of a Thousand Miles
Lang Lang was born in 1982 in Shenyang, China. He has played concerts in all of the major music venues in the world with the world's leading orchestras. He is the #1 selling classical artist in the world, and will serve as a musical ambassador to ... [... more]
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Tower of Babble
Dore Gold, the bestselling author of Hatred's Kingdom, served as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 through 1999 and has been a diplomatic envoy to numerous international leaders. Ambassador Gold, who earned his Ph.D. in ... [... more]
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John Shields
Loosen your belts and get ready to chow down on a pile of steamed blue crabs, dine on a Maryland plantation-style feast, or graze through the stalls of Baltimore's Cross Street Market with television host and "Culinary Ambassador of the Bay," .. [... more]
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