When the United Nations convenes Sept. 18 for its annual General Assembly in New York, the world will be watching to see what — if anything — the international governing
On Jan. 12, 2010 — the day a powerful earthquake destroyed Haiti's capital city and wrecked its economy — Paul Altidor was at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, advising his
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Pity the foreign government official tasked with finding usable space for an embassy in Washington, D.C. With a virtually recession-proof real estate market and office space costing $94 per square
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