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...does epitomize the best, in so many ways, of what we aspire to at the Kennedy School,” he said. Johnson-Sirleaf addressed Harvard audiences in August 2005, during her presidential campaign, and in September 2006, just months after her inauguration. Kennedy School Academic Dean Mary Jo Bane, who introduced Johnson-Sirleaf at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum in 2006, is “very excited” to have the President back. “She represents an aspiration for our students,” said Bane...
...bane of any creative industry in Asia--intellectual property protection-- remains the most pressing concern for animation. Chu, who has worked in animation in Hong Kong for more than 20 years, has given up. "There's really nothing that can be done," he says. "The only hope is that someday our product is cheap enough that it's not affordable to counterfeit." Lucasfilm, on the other hand, chose to operate in Singapore because of the country's strict copyright laws and advanced legal system. "We feel comfortable that the infrastructure is in place to protect individual IP," says Kubsch...
Argentina is just as sensibly working to cut its dependence on commodities-- the bane of almost every Latin economy. Argentina, which has one of the region's more skilled workforces, recently passed a biotechnology-promotion law to channel incentives to biotech firms. One, Bio Sidus, with $40 million in annual sales, is pioneering an affordable human-growth hormone from the milk of genetically modified calves cloned 60 miles (97 km) from Buenos Aires. "Our traditional cattle-ranching experience gives us a big advantage," says Bio Sidus president Marcelo Argelles. "But our biggest challenge is obtaining financing at international rates...
...bane of the environmentalist movement is neither a steam-belching factory nor a gas-guzzling pickup truck, but an item whose overwhelming prevalence in the world makes its elimination a daunting task: the dreaded plastic...
...skilled guerrillas. "What is I think clear is Iran's interest in things like the Lebanon model as a method of preserving strategic influence in areas that are of importance to them," says Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, the acting commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad. "That's the bane of the Middle East, and it's also the fingerprint of Iranian statecraft. And so we see that emerging here, just as we saw it emerge in Lebanon...