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Leonel Antonio Fern??ndez Reyna’s speech, titled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example,” proceeded without turbulence, and students who attended a private luncheon with the president beforehand said that it, too, was calm...
...would give anything to not be standing here today,” he added.Also at yesterday’s meeting, five professors were honored with Harvard College Professorships, given to professors for recognition of undergraduate teaching: Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Luis Fern??ndez-Cifuentes, Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology David A. Haig, Jayne Professor of Government Jennifer L. Hochschild, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94, and Professor of Sociology Peter V. Marsden.Glenda R. Carpio, assistant professor of African and African American studies, and Alison F. Frank, assistant...
...unclear just how much Fern??ndez means to challenge this, even though his Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) is slightly left (but pro-business) and his upbringing quite modest. His mother fled the island to work as a seamstress in a New York City garment factory, which afforded Leonel some formative years in New York City's Upper West Side. To many, Fern??ndez seems more fixated on consolidating power than on advancing his government's ambitious agenda. His government, for example, is spending almost as much building a subway line--$700 million--as it does on education and health together...
...probably too early for unequivocal verdicts, but it seems fair to say that Fern??ndez often appears to be trying to have it both ways. Take the recently concluded free-trade agreement with the U.S. Fern??ndez gets points for pushing the Dominican Congress to go along, but with nearly 90% of its exports going to the U.S., the country really had little choice. And Fern??ndez's party delayed implementation, which allowed a pipeline of infrastructure projects to go to favored contractors without the fuss of open bidding required by the new accord. That includes the subway contract, which...
...going to need dependable power to fulfill Fern??ndez's vision of deploying information technology to leapfrog the country into future-friendly industries. It could not come soon enough. China's hot dragon breath vaporized 20,000 low-skilled jobs in recent years--about 10% of the total in the free-trade zone, necessitating a move up-market. Good telecommunications could make the country suitable for outsourcing, including call centers, but the D.R. is just beginning to train the legions of computer-savvy English speakers it needs to make a dent in swelling youth unemployment. Only 10% of students finish...