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Harvard Law School (HLS) honored Sadako Ogata, the former United Nations (UN) high commissioner for refugees, by awarding her its sixth annual Great Negotiator Award yesterday. Ogata, who is known for her work in several refugee crises, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Iraq, said she was very surprised to be chosen for the honor. “I never thought of myself as a negotiator,” she said. HLS’s Program on Negotiation (PON) presents the reward to individuals who have created innovative and lasting solutions to disputes on the international stage. Ogata served as High Commissioner...
...full-scale productions with the HRDC. The road to achieving student directorial premieres is a rather well-paved one at Harvard. A would-be student director typically selects a script, finds a staff and producer, and then applies to the HRDC board. Once the application is approved, the director chosen serves as the creative head of the production and is entrusted with almost complete creative license for the work. With his production of “Rocky Horror” slated to open October 28, current HRDC President John T. Drake ’06 is one of the foremost...
...that he provides a comprehensive intellectual framework from which these goals emerge. This is not empty rhetoric.Walt begins with the familiar premises that American power is unrivalled and that America should do everything it can to maintain its primacy. But as well as summarizing the ways different administrations have chosen to use America’s power, Walt charts the ways other countries deal with American primacy. From North Korea’s nuclear “blackmail,” to the 2001 “Friendship Pact” between Russia and China, to the influential Israeli, Indian...
...African-American to head one of the branches of the National Institutes of Health.The awards were presented at the closing dinner of a conference of HSPH’s Leadership Council, composed of alums, donors, professors, and HSPH affiliates.HSPH communications director Robin Herman said that the award recipients were chosen in a “general process involving a lot of people at the school.”The Julius B. Richmond award is named in honor of a professor emeritus at Harvard and former U.S. Surgeon General who was the first national director of the Head Start program. Previous...
...show displayed 24 pieces on nine different models, who were chosen from modeling agencies in Boston and had to audition in front of Gordon, Remele, and Whitman to prove they had what it takes to walk down a runway...