tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8386991961110673902024-02-18T22:31:50.967-08:00I Was Here.Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comBlogger1151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-29311456917698512342013-03-19T09:42:00.001-07:002013-03-19T09:45:41.477-07:00Li Keqiang<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Li
Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is the Premier of the People's Republic of China and
party secretary of the State Council. In his capacity as Premier, Li is China's
head of government as well as the leading figure behind its economic policy. He
is also the second ranked member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee, the
de facto highest decision-making body of the country. From 2008 to 2013 Li
served as the Executive Vice-Premier under then-Premier Wen Jiabao. During this
tenure, Li's official portfolio included economic development, price controls,
finance, climate change, and macroeconomic management.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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rose through the party ranks through the Communist Youth League. From 1998 to
2004, Li served as the Governor of Henan and the province's Party secretary,
and then the Liaoning party secretary, an office that made him first-in-charge
in that province. Li is a leading figure of the "fifth generation"
(Xi-Li Administration) of Communist Party leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Li
Keqiang was born on 1 July 1955 in Dingyuan County, Anhui Province. His father
was a local official in Anhui. Li graduated from high school in 1974, during
the Cultural Revolution, and was sent for rural labour in Fengyang County,
Anhui, where he eventually joined the Communist Party of China and made his way
to becoming the party head of the local production team. He was awarded with
the honour of Outstanding Individual in the Study of Mao Zedong Thought during
this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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refused his father's offer of grooming him for the local county's party
leadership and entered the School of Law at Peking University, where he
received his LLB and became the Chairman of the University's Student Council.
He would go on to acquire a PhD in Economics. In 1980 he became the Communist
Youth League Secretary at Peking University. He entered the top leadership of
the Communist Youth League (CYL) in 1982 as a member of its Secretariat, and
has worked closely with current General Secretary Hu Jintao, who also rose
through the ranks of the CYL, ever since. Li became the organization's General
Secretary in 1993, and served until 1998. He is a representative member of the
first generation to have risen from the CYL leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is married to Cheng Hong, a professor at Capital University of Economics and
Business in Beijing. His father-in-law was once the vice-secretary of the
Communist Youth League Central Committee.</span> </div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-60611666841253394722013-03-16T10:21:00.000-07:002013-03-16T10:22:25.223-07:00Uhuru Kenyatta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Muigai Kenyatta (born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician who was elected
as President of Kenya in March 2013. Uhuru Kenyatta is also an accused suspect
for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court at the Hague,
Netherlands. He has served in the government of Kenya as Deputy Prime Minister
since 2008 and was also the Member of Parliament for Gatundu South
Constituency. Kenyatta also served as Chairman of Kenya African National Union
(KANU), which was a part of the Party of National Unity (PNU).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Kenyatta
is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president (1964–1978). His origin in
Kenya's Kikuyu tribe has played a key role in his political life. His name,
Uhuru, is Swahili for "freedom". He attended St Mary's School in
Nairobi. From there he went on to study political science at Amherst College in
the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Nominated
to Parliament in 2001, he became Minister for Local Government under President
Daniel arap Moi and, despite his political inexperience, was favored by
President Moi as his successor; Kenyatta ran as KANU's candidate in the
December 2002 presidential election, but lost to opposition candidate Mwai
Kibaki by a large margin. He subsequently became Leader of the Opposition in
Parliament. He backed Kibaki for re-election in the December 2007 presidential
election and was named Minister of Local Government by Kibaki in January 2008,
before becoming Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade in April 2008 as
part of a coalition government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kenyatta was Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2012, while remaining Deputy
Prime Minister. Accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of committing
crimes against humanity in relation to the violent aftermath of the 2007
election, he resigned as Minister of Finance on 26 January 2012.</span><br />
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(born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current pope
of the Catholic Church, elected on 13 March 2013. As such, he is both head of
the Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">A
native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was ordained as a priest in 1969. He
served as head of the Society of Jesus in Argentina from 1973 to 1979. In 1998
he became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and in 2001 a cardinal. Following the
resignation of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, on 28 February 2013, the
conclave elected Bergoglio, who chose the papal name Franciscus in honour of
Saint Francis of Assisi. He is the first pope to be a Jesuit, to come from the
Americas, and to come from the Southern Hemisphere. Francis is the first
non-European pope since St. Gregory III, who died in 741.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Jorge
Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, one of the five children of Mario
José Bergoglio, a railway worker born in Portacomaro (Province of Asti) in Italy's
Piedmont region, and his wife Regina María Sívori, a housewife born in Buenos
Aires to a family of northern Italian (Piedmontese-Genoese) origin. Bergoglio
has been a supporter of the San Lorenzo de Almagro football club since his
childhood.</span></div>
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from the technical secondary school Escuelas Técnicas No. 27, Hipólito Yrigoyen
with the qualification of chemical technician. According to some sources (not
including the Vatican), he earned a master's degree in chemistry from the
University of Buenos Aires. At the age of 21, he decided to become a priest and
began his religious studies, being eventually ordained in 1969. In the only
known health crisis of his youth, he suffered from life-threatening pneumonia
and cysts and had part of a lung removed shortly afterwards. According to
Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Bergoglio was mentored
by Salesian Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Stefan Czmil and knows the
Byzantine liturgy well.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-9494705466218104962013-01-26T11:26:00.003-08:002013-01-26T11:29:46.980-08:00Miloš Zeman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Miloš
Zeman (born 28 September 1944 in Kolín) is the president-elect of the Czech
Republic. He served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to
2002. He was also leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party and served as
Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament,
from 1996 to 1998. He was a frequent rival of Václav Klaus. Zeman transformed a
weak Czech Social Democratic Party into one of the country's major parties
along with the Civic Democratic Party. On 26 January, 2013, he was elected the
President of the Czech Republic. His term will begin in March 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In
April 2001, he was replaced by Vladimír Špidla as party leader. Zeman then
retired and moved to live in the countryside (Vysočina Region). His nomination
for Czech president failed at the 2003 presidential election (to Václav Klaus),
due to party disunity. Zeman became an outspoken critic of former party's
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is known for his sharp, even insulting, speeches and wit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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left the Czech Social Democratic Party on 21 March 2007 due to conflicts with
the then leader and chairman of the Czech Social Democratic Party Jiří
Paroubek. Zeman has a similar view on global warming as his former opponent
Klaus. According to his opinion, human activity probably could not influence
global warming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October 2009, he founded the Party of Civic Rights – Zemanovci.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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June 2011, Zeman, referring to Islam, said "The enemy is the
anti-civilisation spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people
live in it." He likened Muslims who believe in the Qur'an to antisemitic
and racist Nazis. A complaint was lodged against him following the comments.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-86801145044042497112012-12-20T18:35:00.002-08:002012-12-20T18:35:37.694-08:00Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Mathieu
Ngudjolo Chui (born 8 October 1970) is a colonel in the Congolese army and a
former senior commander of the National Integrationist Front (FNI) and the
Patriotic Resistance Force in Ituri (FRPI).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">On 6
February 2008, he was arrested by the Congolese authorities and surrendered to
the International Criminal Court (ICC) to stand trial on six counts of war
crimes and three counts of crimes against humanity. The charges include murder,
sexual slavery and using children under the age of fifteen to participate actively
in hostilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In
December 2012, he was controversially acquitted of war crimes at Hague by Judge
Bruno Cotte on the grounds that the prosecution had not proven beyond
reasonable doubt that he was responsible for the crimes committed, a decision
which led to criticism of the ICC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is also known as Mathieu Cui Ngudjolo or Cui Ngudjolo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Ngudjolo
was born on 8 October 1970 in Bunia, Ituri Province, in the north-east of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A "poor farmer's son", he is
believed to be of Lendu ethnicity and speaks Lingala, French, Swahili and
Kilendu. He is married to Semaka Lemi and has two children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-13821597752905087742012-12-19T11:54:00.001-08:002012-12-19T11:54:25.795-08:00Henry Paulson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Henry
Merritt "Hank" Paulson, Jr. (born March 28, 1946) is an American
banker who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He
previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.
Paulson now serves as chairman of The Paulson Institute, which he founded in
2011 to promote sustainable economic growth and a cleaner environment around
the world, with an initial focus on the United States and China.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Paulson
was born in Palm Beach, Florida, to Marianna (née Gallauer) and Henry Merritt Paulson,
a wholesale jeweler. His recent ancestors immigrated from Jalisco, Mexico and
Canada. He was raised in La Estancia, Mexico as a Christian Scientist. Paulson
attained the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and is a
recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">A
star athlete at Barrington High School, Paulson was a champion wrestler and
stand-out football player, graduating in 1964. Paulson received his A.B. in
English from Dartmouth College in 1968; at Dartmouth he was a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon and he was an All-Ivy, All-East, and
honorable mention All American as an offensive lineman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">He
met his wife Wendy Judge, a Wellesley College graduate, during his senior year.
The couple have two adult children, sports-team owner Henry Merritt Paulson
III, more commonly known as Merritt Paulson, and journalist Amanda Paulson. The
Paulsons became grandparents in June 2007. They maintain homes in both
Barrington Hills and Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Paulson
received his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business
School in 1970<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-8671959568791037172012-12-19T08:30:00.000-08:002012-12-19T08:30:02.301-08:00McKeeva Bush<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">William
McKeeva Bush, OBE (born 20 January 1955) is a Caymanian politician and the
former Premier of the Cayman Islands. Bush, the leader of the United Democratic
Party, was the first elected member for the district of West Bay, and has
served seven consecutive terms in the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman
Islands representing that constituency. He was removed from his post as Premier
in a vote of no confidence following his arrest in December 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Bush
was educated in the Cayman Islands Government primary and secondary school
system and was awarded an honourary master’s degree in humanities from the
International College of the Cayman Islands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Bush
is married to Kerry Bush (née Parsons), whom he met at a Christian youth group
while a teenager. The couple have one son, Barry. Their daughter Tonya Yvonne
Anglin died from diabetes complications on 25 January 2011; she was survived by
her husband Chet Anglin and daughter Zariah (Bush's granddaughter).</span></div>
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is a director and shareholder of the Cambridge Real Estate Company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Queen Elizabeth II appointed him an Officer of
the Order of the British Empire in 1997 for his work in the Cayman Islands
community and success in the Cayman Islands Government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-18958062681742850292012-12-19T08:16:00.000-08:002012-12-19T08:19:56.676-08:00Park Geun-hye<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Park
Geunhye (Hangul: </span><span style="font-family: "Gulim","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim;">박근혜</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">; Hanja: </span><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">朴槿惠</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">;
born 2 February 1952) is a South Korean politician. She was the chairwoman of
the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) between 2004 and 2006 and between
2011 and 2012 (the GNP changed its name to "Saenuri Party" in
February 2012). Park is a member of the Korean National Assembly who had served
four consecutive parliamentary terms as a constituency representative between
1998 and 2012, and started her fifth term as a proportional representative from
June 2012. Her father was Park Chung-hee, president of South Korea from 1963 to
1979. She is considered the most influential politician in Korea since the
"three Kims" (Kim Young Sam, Kim Dae-jung, and Kim Jong-pil). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She won the election on December 19, 2012, and
is now the first woman president of Korea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Park
was born on 2 February 1952, in Samdeok-dong of Jung-gu, Daegu, as the first
child of Park Chung-hee, president and dictator of South Korea between 1963 and
1979 and Yuk Young-soo. She has a younger brother, Park Ji-man, and a younger
sister, Park Seoyeong. Park has never been married. Park Graduated from Seoul's
Seongsim High School in 1970, going on to receive a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering from Sogang University in 1974. She received honorary
doctoral degrees from Chinese Culture University in Taiwan in 1987, Pukyong
National University and KAIST in 2008, and Sogang University in 2010.</span> </div>
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Lady - as the President's daughter after her mother's murder<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Park
lost her mother to Mun Se-gwang, a Japanese-born Korean assassin, a member of
General Association of Korean Residents in Japan under the command of the North
Korean government in the National Theater of Korea, Seoul on 15 August 1974.
Since then, she was regarded as first lady until 1979 when her father was also
assassinated by his own intelligence chief, Gim Jaegyu, on 26 October 1979.
During this time, activists who were political opponents of her father were
claimed to be subject to arbitrary detention, and human rights were considered
subordinate to economic development. In 2007 Park Geunhye has expressed regret
at the treatment of activists during this period.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-36373185634605154932012-12-18T12:02:00.000-08:002012-12-19T08:21:44.461-08:00Marissa Mayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Marissa
Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive. She is the
current president and CEO of Yahoo!. Previously, she was a long-time executive
and key spokesperson for Google. She is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500
company, and has been ranked number 14 on the list of America's most powerful
businesswomen of 2012 by Fortune magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, the daughter of Margaret Mayer, an art teacher
of Finnish descent, and Michael Mayer, an engineer. After graduating from
Wausau West High School in 1993, Mayer was selected by Wisconsin governor Tommy
Thompson as one of the state's two delegates to attend the National Youth
Science Camp in West Virginia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Mayer
graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in symbolic systems
and an M.S. in computer science. For both degrees, she specialized in
artificial intelligence. In 2009, the Illinois Institute of Technology granted
Mayer an honoris causa doctorate degree in recognition of her work in the field
of search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;">Mayer
married lawyer and investor Zachary Bogue on December 12, 2009.</span></div>
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the same day Yahoo! announced her hiring, Mayer revealed that she was pregnant.
Mayer gave birth to a baby boy on September 30, 2012. Although she asked for
suggestions via social media, the name Macallister was eventually chosen for
her baby's name from a preexisting list.</span></div>
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priorities now are "God, family and Yahoo--in that order.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-21121414458577025642012-12-18T11:50:00.001-08:002012-12-18T11:50:21.319-08:00Mo Farah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Mohamed
"Mo" Farah (born 23 March 1983) is a Somali-born British
international track and field athlete. He is the current 10,000 metres Olympic
champion and 5000 metres Olympic, World and European champion. On the track, he
generally competes over 5000 m and 10,000 m, but also runs the 3000 metres and
occasionally the 1500 metres. He has expressed a desire to move up to the
marathon after the 2012 Summer Olympics.</span></span></div>
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holds the European track record for 10,000 m, the British road record for
10,000 m, the British indoor record in the 3000 m, the British track record for
5000 m, the British half-marathon record, and the European indoor record for
5000 m. In July 2010, Farah won Britain's first-ever men's European gold medal
at 10,000 m. He followed this with a gold in the 5000 m, becoming the 5th male
athlete to complete the long-distance double at the championships and the first
British man to do so. At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, he won
silver the 10,000 m and gold in the 5000 m. He became double Olympic champion
at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, taking gold in both the 5000 and 10,000
metres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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addition, Farah competes in cross-country running, where in December 2006 he
became European champion in Italy. He also took gold in the 3000 m in both the
2009 and 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, in Turin and Paris
respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Farah
was originally based in London and ran for Newham and Essex Beagles athletics
club, training at St Mary's University College, Twickenham's sports facilities
in Strawberry Hill from 2001 to 2011. In 2011 he relocated to Oregon, United
States, in order to further his training with coach Alberto Salazar. Farah was
also voted 2011 European Athlete of the Year from twelve nominees, with Christophe
Lemaitre in second place. He won the same prize in 2012. He is an ambassador for
Bupa, Lucozade Sport, Virgin Media and Nike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Born
in Mogadishu, Somalia. On 23 March 1983, Farah spent the early years of his
childhood in Djibouti with his twin brother. He later moved to Britain at the
age of 8 years old to join his father, speaking barely a word of English.
Farah's father was born in England and grew up in Hounslow, London; his parents
met after his father went on holiday to Somalia.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Farah
attended Feltham Community College in London. His athletic talent was first
identified by physical education teacher Alan Watkinson, who later said of
Farah: "When I first met him, he was struggling academically and suffering
from the language barrier. He needed focus and I sort of took him under my
wing. His passion was football but it was his turn of speed on the pitch that
showed his real talent." His ambition was to play as a right winger for
Arsenal football club.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-57455756638891850942012-12-18T11:36:00.002-08:002012-12-18T11:36:59.580-08:00Tim Cook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Timothy
D. "Tim" Cook (born November 1, 1960) is the CEO of Apple Inc. Cook joined
Apple in March 1998 as SVP of Worldwide Operations and also served as EVP of
Worldwide Sales and Operations and was COO until he was named the CEO of Apple
on August 24, 2011, succeeding Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011, from
pancreatic cancer. Cook had previously served as acting CEO of Apple after Jobs
began a medical leave in January 2011.</span></div>
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early 2012, he was awarded compensation of 1 million shares, vesting in 2016
and 2021, by Apple's Board of Directors. As of 2012, Cook's total compensation
package of $378 million makes him the highest paid CEO in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama, near Mobile. His father was a shipyard worker,
while his mother was a homemaker. Cook graduated from high school at
Robertsdale High School, earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from
Auburn University in 1982, and his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School
of Business in 1988.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-88701888509768753462012-12-18T11:30:00.001-08:002012-12-18T11:30:33.948-08:00Felix Baumgartner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Felix
Baumgartner (born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE
jumper. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24
mi), reaching an estimated speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph), or
Mach 1.24, on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound
barrier without vehicular power on his descent. He is also renowned for the
particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career.
Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practised parachute
jumping, including training to land on small target zones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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most recent project was Red Bull Stratos, in which he jumped to Earth from a
helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012. As part of this project,
he set the altitude record for a manned balloon flight, parachute jump from the
highest altitude, and greatest free fall velocity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Felix
Baumgartner was born, on 20 April 1969, in Salzburg, Austria.[8] When he was a
little boy, he dreamed about flying and skydiving. In 1999 he claimed the world
record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the
Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On 25 July 2003, Baumgartner became
the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made
carbon fiber wing. Alban Geissler, who developed the SKYRAY carbon fiber wing
with Christoph Aarns, suggested after Baumgartner's jump that the wing he used
was a copy of two prototype SKYRAY wings sold to Red Bull (Baumgartner's
sponsor) two years earlier.</span></div>
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also set the world record for the lowest BASE jump ever, when he jumped 29
metres (95 ft) from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.
This jump also stirred controversy among BASE jumpers who pointed out that
Baumgartner cited the height of the statue as the height of the jump even
though he landed on a slope below the statue's feet, and that other BASE
jumpers had previously jumped from the statue but avoided publicity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in
France on 27 June 2004 and the first person to skydive onto, then BASE jump
from, the Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden on 18 August 2006. On 12
December 2007 he became the first person to jump from the 91st floor
observation deck of the then-tallest completed building in the world, Taipei
101 in Taipei, Taiwan.</span><br />
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-56079344768367392922012-12-18T11:20:00.001-08:002012-12-18T11:20:54.740-08:00Malala Yousafzai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Malala
Yousafzai (Pashto: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ملاله</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">یوسفزۍ</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> Malālah Yūsafzay, born 12 July 1997) is a
school student and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat
District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her
education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had
at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of
11/12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life
under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views
on promoting education for girls. The following summer, a New York Times
documentary was filmed about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in
the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai began to rise
in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television and taking a
position as chairperson of the District Child Assembly Swat. She has since been
nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by Desmond Tutu and has
won Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize. A number of prominent
individuals, including the Canadian Minister of Citizenship, are supporting a
petition to nominate Yousafzai for the Nobel Peace Prize.</span></div>
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October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination
attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus. In the days
immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical
condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to a
hospital in the United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October, a
group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried
to kill her, but the Taliban reiterated its intent to kill Yousafzai and her
father, Ziauddin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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British Prime Minister and current UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon
Brown launched a United Nations petition in Yousafzai's name, using the slogan
"I am Malala" and demanding that all children worldwide be in school
by the end of 2015. Brown said he would hand the petition to Pakistan's
President Asif Ali Zardari in November. UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has
announced that 10 November will be celebrated as Malala Day.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-55929843164475621872012-12-10T22:27:00.000-08:002012-12-10T22:27:03.367-08:00Cheick Modibo Diarra<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Modibo Diarra (born 1952) is a Malian astrophysicist, businessman, and
politician who was acting Prime Minister of Mali since 17 April 2012. On 11
December 2012, Diarra presented his resignation on state television in a
broadcast at 4 a.m. local time, hours after soldiers who led Mali's recent coup
arrested him at his home in Bamako.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Diarra
was born in Nioro du Sahel, Mali. He is the son-in-law of former president
Moussa Traoré. After graduating high school in Mali, Cheick Modibo Diarra
studied mathematics, physics, and analytic mechanics in Paris at the University
of Pierre and Marie Curie, then aerospace engineering at Howard University in
Washington, D.C. He was recruited by Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a
NASA FFRDC Contractor, where he played a role in several NASA programs,
including the Magellan probe to Venus, the Ulysses probe to the Sun, the
Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter, and the Mars Observer and Mars Pathfinder. He
later became the director of NASA's "Mars Exploration Program Education
and Public Outreach." Dr. Diarra also served as an executive for the Microsoft
Corporation. He also obtained American citizenship.</span></div>
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1999, he obtained permission from NASA to work part-time in order to devote
himself to education development in Africa, founding the Pathfinder Foundation.
He took a further sabbatical in 2002 to found a laboratory in Bamako, Mali for
the development of solar energy. In 2000 and 2001 he also served as a goodwill
ambassador for UNESCO. In 2002 and 2003 he served as CEO of the African Virtual
University, based in Kenya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Modibo Diarra was the chairman of Microsoft Africa from 2006 until the end of
2011. Turning to Malian politics, he founded the Rally for Development in Mali,
a political party, in March 2011, and he intended to stand as a candidate in
the 2012 presidential election</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-58115281256035622432012-12-09T15:50:00.000-08:002012-12-09T15:50:27.808-08:00Victor Ponta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Victor-Viorel
Ponta ( born 20 September 1972) is a Romanian jurist and politician who has
served as Prime Minister of Romania since May 2012. A member of the Social
Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader since 2010, as well as joint leader of
the Social Liberal Union, he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of
Deputies for Gorj County since 2004. In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was
Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and his first wife Roxana (a high school sweetheart) have one son; they
divorced in 2006. That October, in China, he quietly wed Daciana Sârbu, a
future Member of the European Parliament and the daughter of Ponta's Boc
cabinet colleague Ilie Sârbu. The couple's relationship had become serious in
2004, after Ponta's son was born; they had a daughter in March 2008 and married
in a Romanian Orthodox ceremony in the church in Bucharest's Grădina Icoanei
that June.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the winner of the 1989 youth national championship in basketball, where he
played for CSA Steaua Bucure</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ș</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">ti
(Basketball); and of the 2008 Dacia Logan Cup, where he was a co-pilot. He was
made a knight of the National Order for Faithful Service in 2002, and in 2004
received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-38001745648518510512012-12-07T13:18:00.000-08:002012-12-07T13:18:20.280-08:00Ramush Haradinaj<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Haradinaj (born 3 July 1968) is a Kosovo-Albanian politician, a former officer
and leader of the paramilitary organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK),
and the former prime minister of the disputed Kosovo (2005). He leads the
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) party.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the dissolution of Yugoslavia and internal warfare, Haradinaj was among former
UÇK officers charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) with war crimes and crimes against humanity against Serbs,
Roma and Albanians before and during the 1999 Kosovo War. He was acquitted of
all charges on 3 April 2008. The prosecution appeal in 2010, based on
intimidation of many witnesses, led to a partial retrial in The Hague,
Netherlands. Throughout the full trial and appeal process, 19 potential
witnesses died in mysterious circumstances. The international court found that
many of the crimes described by the prosecution had taken place, but concluded
that the prosecution had not provided sufficient "direct evidence" to
prove Haradinaj′s participation.[6] On 29 November 2012, Haradinaj and his
co-defendant were acquitted again on all charges, on lack of evidence.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-82730571854471426992012-12-07T13:13:00.000-08:002012-12-07T13:13:17.291-08:00Borut Pahor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Borut
Pahor (born 2 November 1963) is a Slovenian politician who was Prime Minister
of Slovenia from 2008 to 2012. He was elected as President of Slovenia in
December 2012.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">A
longtime president of the Social Democrats party, Pahor served several terms as
a member of the National Assembly and was its chairman from 2000 to 2004. In
2004, Pahor was elected as member of the European Parliament. Following the
victory of the Social Democrats in the 2008 parliamentary election, Pahor was
appointed as Prime Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In
September 2011, Pahor's government lost a confidence vote amidst an economic
crisis and political tensions. He continued to serve as the pro tempore Prime
Minister until he was replaced by Janez Janša in February 2012. In June 2012,
he announced he would run for the largely ceremonial office of President of
Slovenia. He won the election and defeated President Danilo Türk in a second
round of voting, held on 2 December 2012; he received roughly two-thirds of the
vote</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Pahor
was born in Postojna, SR Slovenia (in the former Yugoslavia) and spent his
childhood in the town of Nova Gorica on the border with Italy, before moving
to the nearby town of Šempeter pri Gorici. He attended Nova Gorica Grammar
School, and in 1983 he enrolled to the University of Ljubljana, where he
studied public policy and political science at the Faculty of Sociology,
Political Science and Journalism (FSPN, now known as Faculty for Social
Sciences, FDV). He graduated in 1987 with a thesis on peace negotiations
between members of the Non-Aligned Movement. His B.A. thesis was awarded the
Student Prešeren Award, the highest academic award for students in Slovenia.
According to the Slovenian press, Pahor worked as a male model to pay for his
university studies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Enrique
Peña Nieto (born 20 July 1966) is the 57th and current President of Mexico. He
is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the former
governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011. Peña Nieto was declared
President-elect after the Mexican general election was declared valid by the
Federal Electoral Tribunal. He assumed the office on 1 December 2012,
succeeding Felipe Calderón as President of Mexico, thereby marking the return
to power of the party that ruled Mexican politics for 71 consecutive years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Peña
Nieto had announced his presidential candidacy in September 2011, four days
after leaving office as governor, formally registering in November of the same
year. With only 38% of the votes and without a legislative majority, Peña Nieto
marked the return of the PRI after a twelve-year hiatus on 2 July 2012, a party
that had governed Mexico uninterrupted for 71 years until it was defeated by
the National Action Party (PAN) in the year 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The
return of the PRI was not welcomed by everyone. Marches against Peña Nieto drew
thousands of people across Mexico, particularly from the Yo Soy 132 student
movement, who protested supposed voting irregularities and alleged media bias. Others
protested that during its time in power, the PRI became a symbol of corruption,
repression, economic mismanagement, and electoral fraud, and many Mexicans and
urban dwellers are worried that its return may signify a return to Mexico's
past. Nonetheless, Peña Nieto has denied such accusations, and promised that
his government will be much more democratic, modern, and open to criticism. He
also pledged that he will continue to fight organized crime and that there will
be no pacts with the criminals.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rule of the PAN, which was unable to pass reforms because it lacked a
congressional majority, along with the idea that the PRI "knows how to
govern" and how to manage the drug cartels, was compelling enough for many
voters to cast their vote for Peña Nieto. Throughout the election, he maintained
a wide lead in the polls. Peña Nieto proposed that he will reinvigorate
Mexico's economy, permit the national oil company, Pemex, to compete in the private
sector, and reduce drug violence that has left more than 55,000 dead in six
years.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-71913467201488746372012-11-21T21:57:00.003-08:002012-11-21T22:01:38.385-08:00Ahmad Mouaz Al-Khatib<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Ahmad
Mouaz Al-Khatib Al-Hasani (Arabic: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">أحمد</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">معاذ</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">الخطيب</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">, born 1960) is the President
of the National Coalition for Opposition Forces and the Syrian Revolution. He
is a former imam of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Al-Khatib
originally studied applied geophysics and worked as an engineer for six years.
He is a member of the Syrian Geological Society and the Syrian Society for
Psychological Science. He was previously President and remains Honorary
President of the Islamic Society of Urbanization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Born
in 1960, Khatib comes from a well-known Sunni Muslim Damascene family. His
father, Sheikh Mohammed Abu al-Faraj al-Khatib, was a prominent Islamic scholar
and preacher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Khatib
originally studied geophysics. He spent six years working as an engineer. He is
also a member of the Syrian Geological Society and the Syrian Society for
Psychological Science, and was president of the Islamic Society of
Urbanization. His status as the former imam makes him a key figure in Syria's
religious establishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">He
later became prominent as an Islamic preacher, and became the preacher of the
Umayyad Mosque in the early 1990s. After he was banned from preaching during
the rule of Mr Assad's father, the late Hafez al-Assad, Khatib began to teach
Islam secretly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Khatib
also established the Islamic Civilization Society, and taught Sharia (Islamic
Law) at the Sheikh Badr al-Din al-Husni Institute in Damascus, and Daawa (Call
to Islam) at the Tahzib Institute for Sharia Sciences. He traveled
internationally to teach including Bosnia-Hercegovina, the Netherlands,
Nigeria, Turkey, the UK and the USA.</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The
Syrian journalist and writer Rana Kabbani, a long time friend of Khatib, said
"Over the years, we have had a very intense political conversation about
what needed to be done in Syria, long discussions about what was wrong with the
society and what could be done about it. He was my window into Syria at a time
when I couldn't physically go there." Kabbani continued to say"He
comes from an area in the old city of Damascus, a part of the city that was
noted for its advocacy against French colonialists, producing freedom fighters.
It was a traditional Damascene Muslim scene, a devout Sunni area with a long
history of resistance. "He cared very deeply about the victims of the 1982
massacre [in the Syrian city of Hama]. He was always seeking for ways to house
or educate those [survivors] that the state wanted killed or banished."</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-60183671806083143472012-11-21T16:43:00.000-08:002012-11-21T22:09:07.393-08:00Mladen Markač<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Markač (born 8 May 1955) is a Croatian retired general. He was a Commander of
Croatian Special Police during Operation Storm during the Croatian War of
Independence (1991–1995), and afterwards held the rank of Colonel General.
Later, he was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed during Operation Storm by Croatian
forces against the Serbs from Croatia. In April 2011, the ICTY found him guilty
and sentenced him to 18 years. On 16 November 2012, he was found not guilty on
all charges by the appeals panel at the ICTY, and immediately set free. A
government plane flew him home, where he received a hero's welcome across all
of Croatia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Markač was born in 1955 in Đurđevac, in the Republic of Croatia, then part of
the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). In 1981, he graduated from
the University of Zagreb, and in 1982, he completed his compulsory military
service. He then joined the police force of the SFRY Ministry of the Interior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1990, Markač and others established a police unit for special tasks in the
Ministry of the Interior. He was appointed Deputy Commander and in late 1990,
this unit became the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit. In 1991, Mladen Markač was
appointed the head of the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit. In 1992, he was promoted
to the rank of Colonel General (reserve).</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-76315307395355041072012-11-21T16:39:00.000-08:002012-11-21T16:39:05.714-08:00Ante Gotovina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gotovina (born 12 October 1955) is a Croatian retired lieutenant general and
former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence.
In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicted
him on a number of war crimes and crimes against humanity charges for crimes
committed in 1995 during and in the aftermath of Operation Storm. After
spending four years in hiding, he was captured in the Canary Islands in
December 2005. In April 2011, Gotovina was found guilty on eight of the nine
counts of the indictment and sentenced to 24 years of imprisonment. On 16
November 2012, he was found not guilty on all charges by the appeals panel at
the ICTY, and immediately set free. A Croatian government plane flew the
general home, where he received a hero's welcome across all of Croatia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gotovina was born in Tkon on the island of Pašman. His father Milan tried to
move with his mother to Italy, but was caught by the Yugoslav border police.
His mother was released while his father spent time in prison. When Gotovina
was nearly four his mother was killed saving him from an explosion from a
construction site. After that his father went to work in Zagreb, while Gotovina
and his siblings went to his maternal grandfather Šime in Pakoštane. Around
Easter of 1971, Gotovina and his friend Srećko tried to escape by sailing away.
Soon they returned to Pakoštane after a storm caused troubles at sea. Gotovina
hid his attempt to escape from his family and continued to attend school for
electrical engineering in Zadar.</span></div>
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Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-45003680042617215852012-11-21T16:32:00.003-08:002012-11-21T16:33:50.220-08:00Ivo Sanader<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Ivo
Sanader (born Ivica Sanader; 8 June 1953) is a Croatian politician who served
as the Prime Minister of Croatia from 2003 to 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Sanader
obtained his education in comparative literature in Austria, where he also
worked as a journalist, in marketing, publishing and also as a private
entrepreneur. In the 1990s, he was briefly in charge of the theatre in Split
before becoming the Minister of Science and Technology as a member of the
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Soon thereafter, he moved to diplomacy, and
served two terms as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">He
was elected leader of the HDZ party in 2000 and 2002, and with them won the
2003 election, becoming the Prime Minister. He was also reelected in the 2007
parliamentary elections. In June 2009, Sanader abruptly resigned his post,
leaving scarce explanation for his actions, and rumours of involvement in
various criminal cases circulated. In January 2010, he tried to stage a
political comeback inside HDZ, but was ejected from party membership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In
December 2010, the Croatian authorities charged him in two high-profile
corruption indictments, but he fled the country and was arrested in Austria,
being extradited to Croatia in July 2011. In November 2012 he was sentenced to
10 years in prison in a first instance verdict.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sanader was born in Split, into a religious, poor working family with four
siblings. Since his family was financially unable to educate all five children,
his mother asked the rector of Archbishopric Classical Gymnasium to accept Ivo
as their student. After completing his high school education, Sanader moved to
Rome to pursue higher education in philosophy. He soon realized that he did not
like the academic environment there very much. Following his return from Rome
he met his future spouse, Mirjana Šarić, whom he married in 1978.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">After
their wedding, Ivo and Mirjana left Split for Innsbruck. His wife studied
archaeology, while Ivo studied comparative literature and Romance languages at
the University of Innsbruck. The young couple was accompanied, while studying
in Innsbruck, by Ivo’s younger brother Miro who also lived and studied in
Innsbruck. During that time, Sanader also reported for the Zagreb sport
newspaper Sportske novosti.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1982, Sanader graduated, and returned to Croatia (then Yugoslavia) with his
wife. He found a job in the marketing department of Dalmacijaturist, however he
did not stay long. He found his next job at the publishing house Logos in 1983
where he was employed as a program editor. In 1988, he became a chief editor
and at one time he was working on the organization of the magazine Mogućnost.
His career at the publishing house was later terminated suddenly. At that time,
his wife also received a notice of termination from her workplace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Sanader
then decided to return to Austria with his family. There he co-founded two
private businesses, one in 1989 which was liquidated by a court in 1992, while
the other existed between 1986 and 2001. Sanader obtained a B.A. in Romance
languages and comparative literature from Innsbruck University in Austria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">John
Dramani Mahama </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> (born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian
politician and th</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">e
current President of Ghana. He was the Vice President of Ghana from 2009 to
2012, and he took office as President on 24 July 2012 following the death of
his predecessor, President John Atta Mills. A communications expert, historian,
and writer, he was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2009 and Minister of
Communications from 1998 to 2001.</span></div>
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was born in Damongo, in the Damango-Daboya constituency of Ghana. His father
Emmanuel Adama Mahama was the first Member of Parliament for the West Gonja
Constituency and the first Regional Commissioner of the Northern Region during
Ghana's First Republic.</span></div>
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attended Achimota School, Primary Department and The University of Ghana,
receiving a bachelor's degree in history in 1981 and a postgraduate degree in
communication studies in 1986. Following this, Mahama travelled to the
Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow, Soviet Union for further studies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">After
completing his education, Mahama returned to Ghana and, from 1991 to 1996,
worked as the Information, Culture and Research Officer at the Embassy of Japan
in Accra.</span></div>
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there he moved to the non-governmental agency (NGO) PLAN International's Ghana
Country Office, where he worked as International Relations, Sponsorship
Communications and Grants Manager.</span></div>
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line with Ghana's constitution, Mahama became President of Ghana on 24 July
2012 on the death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills. The ruling National
Democratic Congress after a long debate on the party’s preparations toward who
succeeds the late President J.E.A Mills as flagbearer for the December polls,
has decided to go for congress on 1 September 2012. The party is expected to
endorse President John Dramani Mahama as flagbearer in the 2012 General
Elections.</span></div>
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is married to Lordina Mahama, with whom he has seven children. He is a
Christian. He has a keen interest in environmental affairs, particularly the
problem of plastic pollution in Africa, which he committed himself to
addressing during his tenure as Vice President.</span></div>
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</div>Robbyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050081584123674706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-838699196111067390.post-38761826936002668952012-07-27T08:05:00.002-07:002012-07-27T08:12:15.278-07:00Pranab Mukherjee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Pranab
Kumar Mukherjee (born 11 December 1935) is the 13th and current President of
India, in office since July 2012. In a political career spanning six decades,
Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied
several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his
election as President in July 2012, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister, and
the Congress party's top troubleshooter.</span></div>
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1969, Mukherjee got his break in politics thanks to Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi, who helped him get elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of
India's Parliament, on a Congress ticket. Following a meteoric rise in the
early phase of his career, he became one of Indira's most trusted lieutenants,
and a minister in her cabinet in 1973. Mukherjee's service in a number of
ministerial capacities culminated in his first stint as Finance Minister in
1982–84. Mukherjee was Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to
1985.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Mukherjee
was sidelined from the Congress during the Prime Ministership of Rajiv Gandhi,
Indira's son. Mukherjee had viewed himself, and not the inexperienced Rajiv, as
the rightful successor to Indira following her assassination in 1984. Mukherjee
lost out in the ensuing power struggle. He formed his own party, the Rashtriya
Samajwadi Congress, which merged with the Congress in 1989 after reaching a
compromise with Rajiv Gandhi. Mukherjee's political career revived when Prime
Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao appointed him Planning Commission head in 1991 and
Foreign Minister in 1995. Following this, as elder statesman of the Congress,
Mukherjee was the principal architect of Sonia Gandhi's (Rajiv's widow) entry
into politics in the late 1990s.</span></div>
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the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came into power in 2004,
Mukherjee, never a mass leader, won a Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament)
seat for the first time. From then until his resignation in 2012, Mukherjee was
number-two in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government. He held a number of
key cabinet portfolios—Defence (2004–06), External Affairs (2006–09) and
Finance (2009–12)—apart from heading several Groups of Ministers (GoMs) and
being Leader of House in the Lok Sabha. After securing the UPA's nomination for
the country's Presidency, Mukherjee easily bested P. A. Sangma in the race to
Rashtrapati Bhavan, winning 70 percent of the vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Raja
Pervez Ashraf (Urdu, Punjabi: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">راجہ</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">پرویز</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">اشرف</span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">; born 26 December 1950) is a
Pakistani politician who is the 17th and current Prime Minister of Pakistan
since June 2012. He was Federal Minister for Water and Power in the Yousaf Raza
Gillani-led cabinet from March 2008 to February 2011. He is a senior leader of
the Pakistan Peoples Party from Rawalpindi District.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Early Life</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Raja
Pervaiz Ashraf 1st (Current) PAKRAL RAJPUT PM OF PAKISTAN. Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
was born on December 26, 1950 in Sanghar, Sindh. He graduated from University
of Sindh in 1970 and worked in agriculture before entering politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Ashraf
was twice elected as a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from his
constituency of Gujar Khan, Rawalpindi District. Most recently, he won
re-election in the February 2008 elections. He became the head of the water and
power ministry in the coalition government of PPP, PML-N, ANP, JUI-F and MQM
formed after 2008 elections. In the position he faced heavy criticism for
repeatedly promising the country's power crisis would be over "by
December" as the country suffered regular blackouts. He oversaw expensive
"rental power" projects that generated very little power, earning the
nickname "Raja Rental" in the Pakistani media. He has been accused of
receiving kickbacks in the rental power projects, and of using illegal money to
buy foreign property. He has denied wrongdoing, and as of June 2012, is
defending himself before the Supreme Court. No official charges have been made
against him. However, the Court did revoke his power as the minister for water
and power in February 2011. Subsequently, he was appointed to the ministry of
information and technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">On
26 April 2012, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani was convicted of being in
contempt of court for refusing to bring charges against President Asif Ali
Zardari On 19 June 2012, he was retroactively ruled ineligible to hold the
office by the Supreme Court. The ruling Pakistan People's Party nominated
textile minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin to replace Gillani, but the nomination
failed when the military issued a warrant for Shahabuddin's arrest on drug
charges. Ashraf was then selected as the party's next option. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">On
22 June 2012, Raja Pervez Ashraf was elected as the 17th Prime Minister of
Pakistan by a 211-89 vote. Ashraf and his cabinet were sworn in on the same
day. His selection as Prime Minister restored the country's government after
several days of turmoil where official the country was without a government.
The Associated Press said Ashraf's election was "unlikely to calm the tensions
roiling the country" and noted that many observers expected him be
eventually be ousted like his predecessor. Political analyst Raza Rumi said
Ashraf was likely choosen by the PPP because they knew he would not last long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Immediately
after his election, Ashraf said that the economy, inflation, and the country's
power crisis would be his top concerns. "Our country cannot afford
politics of confrontation at this time," he said. He also said he wanted
to deal with the United States on "an equal footing." However, he
will likely have to deal with the court's demands to charge Zardari before
doing much else.</span></div>
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