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...University will step up security at Commencement following the May 6 release of an audio recording attributed to Osama bin Laden offering a $125,000 gold reward for the death of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, this year’s keynote speaker...
Sachs taught a broad range of classes during his time at Harvard, including courses at FAS, the Kennedy School and the Law School. But he also toured the world with U2 singer Bono to promote debt relief efforts and advised U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on poverty reduction...
Annan’s critics will not fail to disapprove of the University’s choice, however, and the Secretary-General’s career, to be sure, does contain some troubling missteps. Kofi Annan and the U.N.’s peacekeepers have been painfully absent from some of the bloodiest conflicts of the ’90s. The political genocides that claimed one million lives in Rwanda in 1994 and more than 7000 lives in Srebrenica in 1995 are widely recognized to be the result of U.N. peacekeeping failures, and Annan has admitted as much publicly. More...
...benefit tremendously from its future leaders recognizing the value of international cooperation—and Harvard, which has recently striven to give public service and internationalism greater emphasis in its curriculum, stands to benefit immensely from hearing from one of the foremost public servants in the world. Kofi Annan is a worthy choice and it will be a pleasure to receive...
...capacities as head of U.N. Peacekeeping and later as Secretary-General, Annan has been at the center of many successful U.N. projects and has catalyzed fundamental changes in the scope of the organization’s peacekeeping operations. He promoted a changeover to civilian government in Nigeria in 1998, assembled an international response to the 1999 conflict in East Timor, established an ongoing mission on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border in 2000—largely restoring security after a war that killed tens of thousands—and worked to verify Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon that same year...