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The appointment of Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister of France calls for superlatives like "exceptional, incredible, original".(The Week)(Brief article)

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The appointment of Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister of France calls for superlatives like "exceptional, incredible, original." Nearing 70 now, Kouchner has led a full and rewarding life. A gastroenterologist by training, he was the moving spirit that set up Doctors without Borders, truly a life-saving organization. He has been a minister of health, and the U.N. civil administrator in Kosovo. He likes to say that he is on the side of the oppressed, and one reason for that is the fact that his grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz. For a long time Saddam Hussein was a particular bete ...

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