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...reception honoring Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Oscar Arias Sanchez, Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 yesterday announced the inception of permanent fellowships that will enable two Costa Rican students to attend the K-School...
...plan has recently become something of a political liability for Arias, Hakim says. Costa Rica has recently been the recipient of a flood of Nicaraugan refuges. That deluge combined with the country's current economic difficulties have made some Costa Ricans wonder whether Arias spends too much time trying to solve other people's problems, Hakim says...
Whether or not the plan has been effective in a pragmatic sense, there is no question that the recognition it has received has given a tremendous symbolic boost to Costa Rica's spirits and its sense of self-confidence...
...Costa Rica is known to the World. They don't confuse us with any other people," Robles says. "Costa Rica is for the first time the place of a Nobel Prize winner, and that he was president makes it better...
...Costa Rica does not honor its name. It does not have a rich coast. It is a very poor country," Arias said later. "Our best resource, undoubtedly, is our people, the knowledge, and the education of our youth. You're undoubtedly supporting the effort [of] previous generations [who] for a long time [have] had the wisdom to make education compulsory and free...