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...What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of an Indiana businessman who, on a visit to the Great Wall, grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors while neglecting critical investment factors like crime (Latin businesses spend more than twice as much on security as Asian firms) and education (Latin America prepares "too many psychologists, not enough engineers"). Washington, he writes...
...Unlike many Harvard students who have view the Core as a bane, Miller considers a liberal arts education to be an end, and he’s not alone. Miller is someone who considers his time at Harvard to be the genesis of a lifelong pursuit of knowledge. “My training tends to make me think of what liberal arts meant historically,” Miller says. “I think the way it’s used now has become unmoored from the historic meaning of the term...
...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...