1.0 link 101425 <![CDATA[Myanmar (and China) Need the Odd Couple]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-felsenthal/myanmar-and-china-need-th_b_101425.html When the tsunami hit parts of Asia and Africa in December 2004, President George W. Bush asked his predecessors, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, to travel to the stricken region and bring relief and hope to the victims.

The tsunami, a giant tidal wave in the Indian Ocean, would claim 271,000 lives and leave 1,000,000 homeless. The "odd couple," as former first lady Barbara Bush dubbed the ex-presidents, cemented their unlikely friendship and raised a record-breaking $1.2 billion in...

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