Other unlikely adornments are the baseball-size orbs sitting atop its legs, evoking traditional Indian ball-head war clubs.
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One of Kuwait's leading environmental scientists, with three decades experience in resource conservation, Asem has played a major role in restoring Kuwait's war-ravaged ecosystems as head of the United Nations Compensation Commission's environmental remediation program.
LaValle, a West Point grad, former Army infantry platoon leader and Afghan war veteran, has dived head-on into the life of start-ups along with Tian He to launch Gojee.com, a food technology platform.
After the second world war, Britain sank down the GDP-per-head league tables, looking enviously at the German and Japanese economic miracles in the 1970s.
Despite the clashes, the leading ethnic Albanian politician in Macedonia expressed optimism about negotiations to end the crisis and head off a full-scale war in the Balkan country.
"Investors have finally got the idea of what it really means to have seriously different type of recovery than what we have seen in post-World War II history, " says David Mann, head of research in the Americas for Standard Chartered Bank.
Or was it when he slept in the top bunk of a World War II troopship that had asbestos-clad pipes rattling 2 feet above his head?
In 1997, Sierra Leone's military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, was sworn in as head of state and pledged to restore peace to the war-weary West African nation.
Before the Gulf war, only religious Shia Muslim women wore the abaya, the traditional head-to-toe black cloak.
Upon his return home in the early 1970s, Kerry gained public recognition as the head of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War and for his anti-war testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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And that could head off a destructive trade war and be the catalyst for considerably more trans-Pacific cooperation resolving issues that adversely affect consumers, producers, workers and investors in both countries, and beyond.
Among those asked to do the same are John Williams, head of news at the Foreign Office in the run-up to the war, who was involved in early versions of the September 2002 dossier which has since become notorious for its suggestion Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.
All of which allows Gary White, GM's head truck executive, to chuckle a little at Ford's F-Series war room.
Beanies have also been put to non-profit use: military veterans persuaded Ty to make Buddy Poppy, a white pup covered head-to-paw in poppies and used to teach schoolchildren about veterans and war.
John McCain, for instance, has used his position on the Senate Commerce Committee to wage war on Clear Channel, a company whose radio stations broadcast Rush Limbaugh, a right-wing talking head who has in the past lambasted Mr McCain.
So I want to congratulate Coach Ken -- as I said, from my original home state, also the first Samoan American head coach in the history of Division I-A, just the third Navy coach since World War II to have a winning record in his first season.
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