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...Yard. She previously served as the administrative director for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief at the School of Public Health, a program that delivers antiretroviral treatment to millions of HIV-positive individuals. Though Gorodentsev worked chiefly for Africa in the PEPFAR program, her interests abroad have not been confined to that continent.While working for the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation in the mid-1990s, Gorodentsev—who has a Russian husband and studied Russian—helped privatize small retail stores in Russia and eventually collective and state farms...
Palin was in the Big Lychee on her first visit to Asia, delivering her first major speech abroad at a high-profile conference of bankers and regional finance executives. A reported 1,100 delegates crammed into the ballroom to hear her champion "commonsense conservatism" and Reaganomics and offer commentary on Asian geopolitics. But if this luncheon keynote address was the former Alaska governor's first credential-burnishing step toward a 2012 presidential bid, it was made with the pesky media well at arm's length. All press were barred from the event, reportedly at the request of Palin's camp...
...said the changes stem from a growth in responsibilities for the OIP, which recently began administering the new David Rockefeller International Experience Grants—which funded over 500 students in its inaugural year. Between the influx of funding and increasing overlap with OCS as students spend more time abroad, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds has been pushing for closer cooperation. The organizations will retain separate leadership and separate budgets—which won’t be reduced, according to Mount. The OCS director said they aren’t reuniting, but “there...
...Berlin A Deadly Air Strike Hits Home German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing growing criticism at home and abroad after a bombing in northern Afghanistan ordered by German troops killed dozens of people, including civilians. In an address to parliament, Merkel expressed regret but insisted she would not "accept premature judgments" about the incident, the deadliest involving the nation's military since World War II. The Sept. 4 strike on two fuel trucks hijacked by the Taliban, which was carried out by U.S. fighter jets, has heightened the Afghan war's unpopularity in Germany and erodes confidence in Merkel...
...that the brothers wouldn't have let the king of the Latin Grammys take over the same square beneath the massive visage of Che Guevara if they thought he was a threat to their rule. In the short run, at least, the Castros won p.r. points at home and abroad by letting Juanes and other Latin luminaries perform...