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Nicholas D. Kristof ’82, the crusading New York Times columnist, will speak at the Kennedy School of Government??s June 6 graduation ceremony, the school announced this week...
...contradictory foreign policy. “The new bill would not contain the slightest conflict between the federal and state governments,” said State Rep. Jay Kaufman (D-Lexington), who helped draft the legislation. “We’d be simply adopting the federal government??s labeling of Darfur as a ‘genocide’ and acting consistently with their position. When the federal government removes the label of ‘genocide,’ investments can resume.” According to a Boston Globe report last July, the state?...
...former deputy prime minister of Thailand is arriving today as a senior fellow at the International Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government??s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a Kennedy School spokeswoman said late last week. Surakiart Sathirathai will also be a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School’s European Law Research Center, according to spokesman Michael A. Armini, who added that Sathirathai will not have a teaching appointment. Sathirathai received a master’s degree from the Law School in 1982 and became the first Thai person to earn...
...address those issues a bit more directly.” Bloomberg, a graduate of Harvard Business School and founder of the financial software service company Bloomberg L.P., drew many parallels between business and government during the exclusive ceremony. “Business is a dog-eat-dog world and government??s just worse,” Bloomberg said. “In business you have to build consensus. If the staff doesn’t want it to work it can stop you just like in the bureaucracy and government world.” Bloomberg also treated...
...when we have legitimate and formal reasons, such as being students at respectable universities.” The State Department does, however, have reasonable concerns about letting in people who may be dangerous into the United States. American foreign policy has made Iraq a haven for terrorists, and the government??s caution in dealing with Iraqi immigrants seems warranted. However, exceptions should be made for extreme cases like al-Dewachi’s; he has already undergone background checks and received a visa multiple times. Telling al-Dewachi to go back to Iraq is simply too cruel...