HE GUOQIANG
b. October 1943
HE GUOQIANG
#8 OUT OF NINE IN THE RULING
CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY HIERARCHY
(POLITBURO STANDING COMMITTEE)
CHAIR, CENTRAL DISCIPLINE INSPECTION COMMITTEE
THE ANTI-CORRUPTION "CZAR"
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
ROBERT STRAUSS TURNS NINETY-THREE TODAY
ROBERT S. STRAUSS
b. October 19, 1918
BOB STRAUSS
IN HIS HOTEL SUITE
AT THE 1980 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
NEW YORK CITY
Photograph published in the August 25, 1980, issue of
BUSINESS WEEK (p. 28)
Robert S. Strauss has been "Counselor" to presidents both Democratic and Republican over the course of a long career that has seen him in official positions as diverse as Special Trade Representative for Jimmy Carter and the last U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (and the first Ambassador to Russia) for George Bush. A long and colorful reminiscence of the arc of his career up to 2003 can be found here.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
FRANK CARLUCCI TURNS EIGHTY-ONE TODAY
FRANK CHARLES CARLUCCI III
b. October 18, 1930
FRANK CARLUCCI
ON THE HILL
IN THE REAGAN ERA
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
AL GORE WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Four Years Ago
AL GORE & THE
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL
ON CLIMATE CHANGE WIN
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
October 12, 2007
REP. ALBERT A. GORE, JR. (D-TN)
Photograph published in the October 13, 1982, issue
of CHEMICAL WEEK (p. 40)
Got to give the man credit for consistency on this ('The child is father to the man'?): Gore in 1982 was said by CHEMICAL WEEK to be "widely regarded as one of the nation's most powerful legislators on matters affecting the chemical industry, such as ecology and product safety. And as an aggressive young congressman with a strong commitment to environmental and consumer causes, he is seen by many chemical executives as a man whose star they least wish to see rise."
Twenty-five years later he won the Nobel Peace Prize (jointly with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]) "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
NOBEL PRIZE CITATION here
Congressional Biography here
On the other hand (Bush v. Gore et al.) here
Friday, October 7, 2011
DONALD TSANG TURNS SIXTY-SEVEN
SIR DONALD TSANG
b. October 7, 1944
DONALD TSANG YAM-KUEN
HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE
For more on the leader of Hong Kong, see here
Thursday, October 6, 2011
SUNSET ON THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER YAN: CHINA THEN
CROSSING THE BRIDGE
ON THE RIVER YAN
AT SUNSET
YAN'AN, CHINA, 1981
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
TERESA KERRY TURNS SEVENTY-THREE
TERESA HEINZ KERRY
b. October 5, 1938
MICHAEL J. FOX & TERESA HEINZ KERRY
PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE 2004
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
ON DUELING TVs
Teresa Heinz Kerry is a philanthropist, the wife of one Senator (and Democratic presidential nominee), John F. Kerry, and the widow of another (Republican) Senator, John Heinz.
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