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...just picked up one of the most coveted prizes in economics and continued to have his work cited around the globe. He had a lateral tenure offer from New York University, and didn’t seem to be in danger of losing his stature as one of the country??€™s preeminent economists...
India’s Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke before a large crowd about his country??€™s role in the global economy, its nuclear weapons, and its conflicted relationship with Pakistan last night at the Institute of Politics...
Four Sudanese women—all activists of peace and community development in their country??€”gathered at the Malkin Penthouse of the Kennedy School of Government yesterday to describe the conditions, particularly of education, for women and children in their country. The women, without the aid of an interpreter, spoke about their backgrounds and their roles in promoting women’s rights, with heavy moderation from Swanee Hunt, who runs the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program. The speakers—Veronica Louis Renzi Tambura, Kamilia Ibrahim Kuku Kura, Buthiana Abbas Kambal Hassan...
...administrators described as the tightest ever security provided.The highlight of Musharraf’s visit arose courtesy of President Lawrence H. Summers’ enthusiastic remarks. As the Harvard Gazette reported, Summers introduced the president, saying that the University’s cooperation with Pakistan reached back to the country??€™s inception in 1947, concluding that Musharraf’s presence illustrated the vibrancy of the Kennedy School.What it was not, of course, was a sign of the vitality of Pakistan’s democracy, for there was none. President Musharraf was, and still is, a military dictator...
While the Thai people wait to see whether their country??€™s military returns power to a civilian government by next week—following a coup there last Tuesday—undergraduates from Thailand and student organizations planning trips there are tracking the ongoing political developments. General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the leader of a new party calling itself the Democratic Reform Council, last week overthrew Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party. Thaksin, who at the time was in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, declared a state...