Word: annan
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...racialism, I mean a recognition of differences in race that are not necessarily mean-spirited. I laugh when my host mother tells me as we watch the news that she always remembers Kofi Annan's name because he is black like "coffee." But then a bright young Russian student asks me, "Why are there so many niggers on MTV?" And then I talk to a man from Africa who tells me that if he doesn't make it back to his apartment before dark, he waits until the morning so that the kids who sit outside his apartment will...
...know a flatfoot who might like to walk the streets of Pristina, give Kofi Annan a call. The U.N. secretary general convened an urgent meeting of 18 foreign ministers Wednesday to plan for reconstruction in Kosovo, and appealed for member countries to supply personnel for a civilian police force for the beleaguered province. "The military isn?t trained to keep the peace when it comes to local-level confrontations between groups of two or three people," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. And with only half of the envisaged peacekeeping complement of 50,000 actually deployed so far, lawlessness...
...Liberation Army, with the U.S. pushing for the insurgent army to have a role in the territory?s police and political administration, while Canada and other countries urged the U.N. to avoid allowing the KLA to "usurp authority in Kosovo." Rebuilding Serbia also remains a point of contention, with Annan arguing forcefully for a broad definition of humanitarian aid, while the U.S. seeks to limit assistance to Belgrade while Slobodan Milosevic remains in power. "Kofi Annan will push hard against denying aid to Serbia because common sense dictates that the region won?t be stabilized without it," says Dowell...
Standard Harvard New Year's resolution: "I resolve to make use of everything available here. "You can't. It's not humanly possible. In my first year here I saw, met or was involved in an educational experience with Seamus Heaney, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Alice Walker, Will Smith, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Goodman '63, Patricia O'Brien, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Patricia Powell, Elizabeth McCracken, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. '60, Alphonse Flethcer Jr. University Professor Cornel West '74, Professor...
Although the brothers' show is popular, somesaw their selection as unconventional. Past MITspeakers include President Clinton and UnitedNations Secretary General Kofi Annan...