Fmr President Clinton awarded for tsunami work in Germany

[seafan]

Associated Press

Munich (Germany), December 2, 2005

Former US President Bill Clinton has received a German media award for his charitable work following the 2004 tsunami catastrophe.

The honour, known as the "Bambi" prize, is awarded annually by German publisher Hubert Burda.

Clinton, who served as the United Nations' special envoy for tsunami-affected countries, was on hand to accept the award at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests on Thursday.

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HONOURED: Former US President Bill Clinton accepts a Bambi award for his committment as UN special envoy. (Diether Endlicher, AP)
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[SaveElmer]

1. Go Bill...

But for term limits we would have been spared the current debacle in the White House!!!

[seafan]

2. And a related, great story:

From earlier this month, 11-3-05:

British 10-year-old credited with saving 100 tourists from tsunami visits U.N., meets Bill Clinton

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Tilly Smith, just 10 years old, put her geography lessons to good use: By quickly recognizing the warning signs of a tsunami, the English schoolgirl saved about 100 people from near-certain death at a Thai resort.

On Thursday, Tilly visited the United Nations and was to meet former President Bill Clinton, who is serving as the U.N. Special Envoy for the Tsunami Recovery.

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"My mum didn't realize what was happening on the beach because she wasn't taught about tsunamis when she was younger," said Tilly, who was in New York with her mother, father and sister. The Smith family all escaped the lethal waves after Tilly's early warning during their vacation on the island of Phuket.

Two weeks before the Dec. 26, 2004, disaster that took at least 178,000 lives, Tilly had studied tsunamis in her geography class in Oxshott, a community of about 5,000 just south of London. The children were shown a video from an earlier tsunami.

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