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Photo: Larry Luxner Laurent Lamothe PORT-AU-PRINCE — Laurent Lamothe, 39, is Haiti's foreign minister. A championship tennis player who represented his country at the Davis Cup in 1994 and 1995,
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Almost every day in Washington, she can open the newspaper or turn on the TV and hear about her country. Sultana Hakimi is the wife of Afghan Ambassador Eklil Hakimi,
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