• The pair join an elite list of those already given the accolade, including rock group U2, Mother Teresa and former American president Bill Clinton.

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  • Bill Clinton, a former American president who is acting as a UN special envoy to the country, led a delegation of private investors there last year.

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  • The party takes its inspiration from a phrase of the former American president, John F Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country".

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  • Also included in the auction is a signed photo of Charles and Diana with Lord Tonypandy, a signed colour photograph of former American president Ronald Reagan and a signed edition of the memoirs of President Nixon.

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  • In addition, he demanded the right to call scores of high-level witnesses in his defence, including former American president Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany, Kofi Annan, the UN General Secretary, and Madeleine Albright, the former American secretary of state.

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  • Glen S. Fukushima is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

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  • The U.S. delegation is led by two former secretaries of state, George Shultz and James Baker, and other American politicians expected include former vice president Dick Cheney and Republican politician Newt Gingrich.

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  • Bork worked with Haig to appoint Leon Jaworski, a former president of the American Bar Association.

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  • Anderson Cancer Center and a former president of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).

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  • He is former president of the American College of Cardiology.

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  • Too many people "think that more is better, that more treatment, more testing somehow results in better health care, " said Dr. Glen Stream, former president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, which contributed to the list.

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  • Dr. David Faxon , chief of cardiology at University of Chicago Hospital and former president of the American Heart Association, began using the device earlier this year to determine the role viscosity may play in clogging or hardening arteries.

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  • Dr. Lawrence Ross, a professor of urology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former president of the American Urological Association, said the school's clinics have seen moderate increases in the last six months to a year and that vasectomies are growing popular among lower-income clients.

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  • Among those on the fund's advisory board are former US Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and American cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

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  • Mr. Fleming is a former president of the Society of American Historians.

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  • "We are continually guilty of underestimating American voters, " said Lesley Israel, former president of Politics Inc.

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  • The former president of Hollinger International struck a plea bargain with American prosecutors.

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  • Obama and his media flacks would have us believe that by speaking of American values and by distinguishing friend from foe, former president George W. Bush raised the hackles of the world against America.

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  • But the more important rebuttal is contained in a new study be Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and now president of the American Action Forum, who finds substantial and "underappreciated" fiscal and economic benefits from more immigration.

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  • In his Washington Post article, the former foreign minister explains why he thinks Mexican President Felipe Calderon is the only Latin American leader suitable or able to take the lead.

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  • David Wang, a former country head for General Electric and Boeing, said Williams, who served as American Chamber of Commerce president in China, was an entrepreneur of integrity and honesty.

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  • During his confirmation hearings Mr Gonzales assured lawmakers that he understood the difference between his former job and the job he coveted: his client would now be the American people rather than the president.

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  • In the 1970s, Nixon became the first sitting American president to visit that country, but in the 1870s Ulysses S. Grant was the first former occupant of the White House to do so.

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  • Lutz, 69, the former Chrysler president, now GM vice chairman in charge of creating the cars and trucks, and all North American operations as well, won't change the line of a fender for years.

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  • After a third-place finish in Iowa stunned her campaign, the former president shifted from chief optimist to attack dog, with remarks that drew fire from many African-American leaders and alienated much of that community -- along with moderate swing voters.

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  • Although the former Republican presidential candidate would say he and former President Bill Clinton cut deals that led to a record budget surplus and the biggest economic boom in modern American history, many say the Georgia Republican's ideologically unyielding, take-no-prisoners brand of leadership ushered in an era of heel-digging politics that persists to this day.

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