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...won’t be getting anywhere near the stage, having instead been tapped for the slightly-less prestigious Class Day oration at the Law School. Gadfly thinks Harvard is making a terrible mistake, and a side-by-side comparison with last year’s Commencement speaker, Kofi Annan, bears out our case... Kofi Annan Ellen DeGeneres
Past Commencement speakers have included United Nations Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan, Nobel laureate Amartya K. Sen, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Vice President Al Gore...
...countries are highlighted, places where Joshi, who oversees global sourcing at the Children's Place, a North American chain of affordable-clothing stores, visits each year to buy the merchandise his company sells in America. Joshi does not enjoy having a travel schedule as packed as Kofi Annan's. But a system of quotas, originally put in place in 1974 to regulate a $350 billion-a-year global industry, limits the number of shirts, towels and other textiles any country can export annually to the U.S. and the European Union. As a result, the Children's Place?and all other...
According to Dallaire, ountries such as Germany, Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands “have got to step up and start providing assistance to [U.N. Secretary-General] Kofi Annan...
...week, her fortunes took a different turn when she became the first environmental campaigner - and the first African woman - to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On Saturday, Maathai talked with TIME's Stephan Faris under a tree outside the offices of her Green Belt Movement in Nairobi. KOFI ANNAN, NELSON MANDELA, MOTHER TERESA, AND NOW YOU. HOW DOES IT FEEL? It is the kind of thing that I'm sure will sink in slowly. But right now, it's like a dream. When you are involved, you actually don't have time to evaluate the impact of your work...