But, as a fellow member of cricket's somewhat exclusive leg-spinners' club, Smith admits that one of the main influences on his fledgling career has been one of Australian cricket's all-time greats, Shane Warne.

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But no ASEAN leader - not even Malaysia's blunt-spoken Mahathir Mohamad - has delivered such a withering blast at a fellow member state as Wahid directed at Singapore.

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One of them was Walter Russell Mead, a prominent member of the foreign-policy establishment as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and also one of its best writers.

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So Mr Hollande, a fellow member of the centre-left may come as a welcome change.

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Raghavan received his PhD from Berkeley and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.

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Arnold Kanter serves as both a resident senior fellow of the Forum for International Policy and a principal and founding member of the Scowcroft Group.

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Eric Melby serves as both a senior resident fellow of the Forum for International Policy and a principal and founding member of the Scowcroft Group.

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When the pope died, Cardinal Ratzinger was thrust into the spotlight as the most senior member of the College of Cardinals, delivering a tense address to his fellow cardinals in the run-up to the conclave that elected him pope.

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