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...seems the East Coast might yet again be the backdrop for a massive overhaul of the world's financial playbook. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon publicly backed calls for a summit before the new year, saying the agency's headquarters in New York - the very "symbol of multilateralism" - should play host. Sarkozy concurred, but for different reasons: "Insofar as the crisis began in New York," he said, "then the global solution must be found to this crisis in New York...
...location of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s speech at Harvard yesterday was ironically fitting; Ban spoke of the influence President John F. Kennedy ’40 had on his life while standing in the Institute of Politics forum bearing the president’s name. In his introduction of Ban, former Kennedy School dean Graham T. Allison ’62 recalled that he first met the South Korean native when he arrived at the Kennedy School as a Master of Public Administration student in 1983. “He shook my hand...
...Clearing the Air, Again For two months this summer, the Chinese capital saw some of its clearest skies in a decade, thanks to antipollution measures in place for the Olympics and Paralympics. But when restrictions were lifted Sept. 21, pollution returned. Beijing has now reinstated Olympic traffic rules that ban each of the city's 3.5 million cars one day a week, on the basis of license-plate number. The plan may take 800,000 cars off the road...
...Limits placed on teachers during election season vary widely across the nation's 15,000 school districts. In New York, the ban on political pins now being contested has existed in some form or another for more than two decades, though union leaders say it has been rarely enforced. But on Oct. 1, schools chancellor Joel Klein used his monthly newsletter to principals at New York's 1,500 schools to remind them of the policy and warn that disciplinary action could be taken against staff who choose to ignore the rule, prompting the union to take legal action...
...Released in 1990 when the ban on the ANC was lifted • Served as the ANC's regional secretary in the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging region in the early 90s, when the violence there was exceptionally...