President Marcus Stephen of Nauru

In 1993 the committee was founded and Stephen was able to represent Nauru in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

When the Olympic torch was carried to Sydney, Stephen had the honour of being a torch bearer during its stopover in Nauru.

In March 2008, it was reported that Stephen had been appointed to the presidency of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation, the Pacific region's official continental weightlifting body.

On 3 May 2003 Stephen was elected to the Nauru parliament with a score of just over 215 points, achieving first place in the Ewa and Anetan constituency.

During the presidency of René Harris Stephen was Education and Finance Minister of Nauru from 8 August 2003 until 22 June 2004, a post he had to relinquish when Ludwig Scotty became the new president.

After Nauru joined the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on 15 June 2005, Stephen was nominated as a delegate for Nauru.

Stephen was re-elected to parliament in the August 2007 parliamentary election.

However, following a successful vote of no confidence in Parliament against President Scotty on 19 December 2007, Marcus Stephen was sworn in as President of Nauru.

Since Marcus Stephen came to office in circumstances involving the overturning of the previous government's Parliamentary majority in just such a manner, it remained to be seen what the Stephen Administration's formal position and practice on this issue would be.

but the whaling file is one with which President Stephen has been very familiar, given his past appointment as a delegate to the IWC in 2005.

Stephen was immediately in professional mode.

food, but just about everywhere was shut.

convinced that you are who you say you are.

Stephen took a few more seconds to process the information.

have been, and what he was about to do.

Stephen was aghast, “Why?”  “A misplaced sense of duty.

Neroon, that he noticed Marie had fallen asleep.

hadn’t got much sleep in the interceding hours.

later, Stephen was alarmed to see her on the verge of fainting.

list of what she would need to travel around the galaxy.

Stephen was born in Portsmouth, England, moved to Singapore for most of.

Stephen was born in Portsmouth, England, moved to Singapore for most of his baby years and then returned to Portsmouth and grew up there.

Most recently, Stephen has done a television series for the USA and Canada called Starhunter (2003), in which he played "Rudolpho.

Stephen said that “the cost of rehabilitating 80 per cent of our lands is well beyond our immediate means,” appealing for support from the United Nations, along with other donors, to help restore Nauru.