Kelsey Grammer
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Putin. Because he is so comfortably who he is.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: an extraordinary humanitarian fighting for democracy in a Burmese dictatorship.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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