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The World's Most Powerful Women in Politics
全球政坛铿锵玫瑰
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel
德国总理安吉拉•默克尔
Angela Merkel，leader of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), became Germany's first woman chancellor on November 22, ending months of political uncertainty and ushering in a fragile new coalition of left and right that must prove it can revive Europe's biggest economy.
Merkel, the 51-year-old pastor's daughter, started her political career after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989: she joined democracy movements and soon entered conservative politics. Former conservative Chancellor Helmut Kohl launched her early career by making her family and youth minister in his Cabinet. Fifteen years later, Merkel has reached Germany's highest political office; a breathtaking rise which was confirmed by a parliamentary vote in which 397 of the Bundestag's 614 members backed her -- easily enough for the majority she needed in the lower house.
Ireland's President Mary McAleese
爱尔兰总统玛丽·麦卡利斯
President Mary McAleese has always been a breaker of barriers--and she has needed to be. For all her strong views on the need for change, the President remains firmly rooted within her church. `We love our churches,' she says. `They are our hearth and home. We want them to be places of open, not locked, doors.' And this not just within Ireland. She sees the meeting of Western religions with those from the East not as a dilution but an enrichment. `Reconciliation in Christ frees us from anxiety about our identity,' she says. `We exist in relation to him, not through comparison with those who differ from us.'
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark
新西兰总理海伦·克拉克
Helen Clark was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand on 27 November 1999. Her rise to the top of New Zealand politics is the culmination of almost thirty years of involvement with the Labor Party, and the latest chapter in a remarkable story which began in New Zealand's provincial, conservative heartland.
Helen Clark was born in 1950, in Hamilton, and spent her first twelve years on the family sheep and cattle farm to the west of the city. She is the oldest of four girls. Away from politics, Helen Clark is a keen concert goer and opera lover and an enthusiastic supporter of the arts in general. Helen Clark is married to Dr Peter Davis, Professor of Sociology and head of the Sociology Department at Auckland University.
By serving as Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage as well as Prime Minister, Helen Clark intends to give the arts in New Zealand a degree of prominence and support they have not previously enjoyed at the top political level. Helen Clark likes to keep fit through regular visits to the gym and has a passion for hiking and cross-country skiing. In January 1999 she climbed Africa's highest peak, the 5895m Mt Kilimanjaro.
Latvia’s President Vaira Vike-Freiberga
拉脱维亚总统瓦伊拉·维凯-弗赖贝加
After retiring in 1997, she boarded a plane and returned to Latvia to head the Latvian Institute. A year later, she’s been drafted in as a dark-horse candidate for president; shocking observers, she won. Some doubted the red-headed woman who had no political experience and who spent almost 55 years outside Latvia could make it in the male-dominated world of Latvian politics. But she now heralded as Latvia’s most popular and arguably most competent leader. She’s up for reelection in 2003.
When Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga took office last year, observers were quick to point out similarities between her and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Not only are both highly intelligent and strong-willed—with their swirling stacks of red hair, they even look a lot alike. For Vike-Freiberga, the comparisons led to the inevitable label: Latvia’s Iron Lady.
Finnish President Tarja Halonen
芬兰总统哈洛宁
Tarja Halonen was elected the 11th President of Finland in February 2000 and assumed office on 1 March 2000. She is Finland’s first female head of state.
President Halonen was born in Helsinki in 1943. She joined the Social Democratic party in 1971. Her political career began in 1974 when she was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, a post she held until 1975. President Halonen was elected to the Parliament in 1979 and held her seat in five consecutive elections until she assumed the office of the President of Finland.
President Halonen is married to Pentti Arajärvi and has one daughter. She is interested in theatre and has held several honorary positions in this sphere. Her other interests include the history of the arts, and painting and drawing are among her hobbies. She has also been closely involved in rhythmic competition gymnastics and swims regularly.
The Philippines’ President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
菲利宾总统阿罗约
The President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, holds many records. Elected as Senator during her first try in politics in 1992, she was re-elected Senator in 1995 with nearly 16 million votes, the highest number of votes in Philippine history. She was elected Vice President of the Philippines in 1998 with almost 13 million votes, the largest mandate in the history of Presidential or Vice Presidential elections. She was sworn in as the 14th President of the Philippines on January 20, 2001 by Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. after the Supreme Court unanimously declared the position of President vacant, the second woman to be swept into the Presidency by a peaceful People Power revolution.
The President is the daughter of the late President and Mrs. Diosdedo Macapagal, who were well known for their integrity and simple but dignified lifestyle. During the Presidency of Diosdado Macapagal, the Philippines was second only to Japan in economic progress in Asia.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Khaleda Zia
孟加拉国卡莉达•齐亚
Khaleda Zia was born to Iskandar Majumder, a businessman, and Taiyaba Majumder at Dinajpur district in north-western Bangladesh in 1945. In 1960, she got married to Ziaur Rahman. Her husband, one of the prominent heroes of the country's liberation war, later became the President of the Republic and formed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Even when her husband was propelled to power after the political changes in 1975, she remained a shy and withdrawn housewife who devoted most of her time grooming up her two sons.
In 1991, she became the country's first woman Prime Minister through a free and fair general election on 27 February 1991 and formed the government. She became Prime Minister for the second consecutive term after the BNP had a landslide victory in 15 February 1996 general election to the sixth Jatiya Sangsad. The election was, however, boycotted by all other major parties.
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
利比里亚总统埃伦·约翰逊•瑟利夫
From Liberian cabinet minister to senior UN administrator and now presidential election winner at the second attempt, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's career has never stood still. Having served as a finance minister in William Tolbert's True Whig government in the 1970s, Johnson-Sirleaf announced her intention to stand as senatorial candidate in the 1985 elections in opposition to the military rule of Samuel Doe. For a brave speech heavily critical of Doe, she was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, of which she served two short periods of detention, one before and one after the 1985 election, before fleeing the country. Doe went on to win the election through widespread intimidation and almost certainly fraudulent counting.
Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet
智利总统巴舍莱
Chile elected socialist Michelle Bachelet to be its first woman president on Sunday, making her only the second woman elected to head a South American state as Latin America cements a shift to the left. A former defense minister, Bachelet is only the second woman elected to head a South American nation after Janet Jagan of Guyana was chosen to succeed her husband as president in 1997 after he died.
A Bachelet victory consolidates a shift to the left in Latin America, where leftists now run Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela, some with politics more extreme than others. Socialist Evo Morales will soon take office in gas-rich Bolivia, and a leftist is favored to win Mexico's July presidential election.
Key words
词汇
goer n. 行人
unanimously adv.全体一致地
imprisonment n. 关押
Uruguay n.乌拉圭
Venezuela n.委内瑞拉
posted on 2006-05-19 13:24
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