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...Africa that convinced him to set up his foundation and create a $5 million annual prize for the African leader who best personifies responsible and credible government, which he saw as the key to African development. So why are things changing now? "[As] John Githongo [Kenya's former anticorruption czar] says, 'The democracy genie is out of the bottle,' " notes Hania Farhan, the foundation's director of research. "There will be violent ructions and eruptions, like Kenya or Zimbabwe or Nigeria, but the trend is there, and it is remarkable. Africans want their rights and, increasingly, they are getting them...
Solzhenitsyn was born in a resort town in the Caucasus mountains in 1918, the same year the last czar of Russia was murdered by the Bolsheviks. He never knew his father, an artillery officer who died in a hunting accident while his mother was pregnant. His mother was a typist. A zealous communist, Solzhenitsyn served with distinction in World War II, but in 1945, in the teeth of the Red Army's march on Berlin, he was arrested for a personal letter that contained passages critical of Stalin and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp. His life...
...focused on providing security for the population. A successful counterinsurgency requires that we use all the instruments of our national power and that military and civilian leaders work together, at all levels, under a joint plan. Too often in Afghanistan, this is not happening. We need an Afghanistan czar, and I will appoint a highly respected national-security leader, based in the White House and reporting directly to the President, whose sole mission will be to ensure we bring the war to a successful...
...addition to the focus on providing experience to a graduating senior, the public service czar will also serve as a liaison between PBHA and the public service tutors in the upperclass Houses. He will also participate in community service planning for the Harvard Club of Boston...
Razon—who was president of PBHA when the idea of a public service czar was first proposed and who was involved with finding the initial funding for the position—said that while his work next year will free up other staffers to work on other projects, his primary motivation is to get high-level experience in the non-profit world...