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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.


Samantha Power

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SAMANTHA SHANNON I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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