Sublime

She was also doing what women do a lot: being self-effacing, both because she believed it was her job to serve others and because it had the side benefit of mitigating her potential threat as a powerful, ambitious woman.

As always, the work required a balance between putting out geopolitical fires as they arose and devising a proactive agenda that year focused on, among other things, human rights, climate change, and strengthening ties with our allies.

The grab bag of my identity served me well in Abuja. This had always been the case, ever since childhood, except for one critical aspect of my background, the weight of which I would not appreciate until I was older: being of both Indian and Pakistani heritage.

In all these stories, the one thing that stands out to me is this: the impact of one person’s choice.

While I had always found great personal reward in doing my job, and my job always came first, so much in my professional environment was uncertain. Anthony’s very presence was the opposite—he was uncertain about nothing. He became my rock.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. —Wole Soyinka

the end, Blumenthal’s efforts don’t get Hillary to the White House in 2008. And they come back to haunt him when Obama ends up president. Obama appoints Hillary as secretary of state and she wants Blumenthal to be one of her top aides. But high-ranking Obama officials threaten to quit if Blumenthal is allowed into the administration after what he’s

Whatever you have, you share. Standing in solidarity, both in joy and in heartache, is a social responsibility and from the moment we arrived we were embraced.

Again, we’re partners, not pawns. We’re expected to act.