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Kofi Annan says ICC needed for Kenya
Oct 7th, 2009 - Reuters
* Risk of more violence if reforms stall * Says government will cooperate with court * Kenya leaders downplay militia re-arming reports (Recasts, adds quotes, details) NAIROBI...
AMC's 'Mad Men' opens with big ratings
Aug 18th, 2009 - Tampa Bay Online
"Mad Men" has made the covers of numerous entertainment magazines, and it's won a slew of awards. But it has not been a ratings winner for AMC. That could be changing. The season three premiere on Sunday night drew 2.8 million viewers for AMC...
Shaquille O'Neal traded to Cleveland Cavaliers for 3 players, cash
Jun 25th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Diesel, meet King James. Reports that Shaquille O'Neal was on his way to join LeBron James on the Cleveland Cavaliers, in return for almost nothing, weren't exaggerated at all.
African view: Big men do not die
Jun 18th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
In our series of weekly viewpoints from African journalists, Elizabeth Ohene, a former presidential spokesperson in Ghana, considers the delicate issue of announcing a leader's death as Gabon's long-time leader Omar Bongo is buried.
Gasol: Big men should get ball more
May 26th, 2009 - ESPN
Pau Gasol says the Los Angeles Lakers should take greater advantage of their inside game in the remainder of their series against the Denver Nuggets, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.

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Big Men On Campus: Heisman Trophy
Pat Forde talks Heisman Trophy candidates
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NBA TV'S Top 10 Big Men Assists of 2007
Visit www.nba.com for more highlights. Watch the big guys act like point guards in the Top 10 Big Men Assists of 2007.
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CHEWIN THE FAT 4 - THE BIG MAN
BIG MAN ~BLEACHINGS ~BAWBAGS ~MORE BLEACHINGS
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Kenya's 'big men' on the election trail - 27-Dec-07
Voters are turning out in large numbers in Kenya's elections, despite fears of violence. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on the election campaigns of Kenya's 'big men'.

Big Men from WikiPedia:

A big man, within the context of anthropology, refers to a highly influential individual in a tribe, especially in Melanesia and Polynesia. Such person has no formal authority (through for instance material possessions or inheritance of rights), but maintains recognition through skilled persuasion and wisdom.

The American anthropologist Marshall Sahlins has been a proponent of the big-man phenomenon. In his "Poor Man, Rich Man, Big Man, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia" Sahlins uses analytically constructed ideal-types of hierarchy and equality to compare a larger-scale Polynesian-type hierarchical society of chiefs and sub-chiefs with a Melanesian-type big-man system.

The latter consists of segmented lineage groups, locally held together by faction-leaders who compete for power in the social structure of horizontally arranged and principally equal groupings (factions). Here, leadership is not ascribed, but rather gained through action and competition "with other ambitious men".