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...question-marking why America needs to be so big-footed and interventionary,” Edelman said. “He’s on the peacenik side.”ALL IN THE FAMILYThough Lamont is a political neophyte, his family name has been a significant presence in government??and at Harvard—for generations.As a student at Harvard, Lamont was quite aware of his family’s extensive influence on the University, he said. But his friends said that he did not seem self-conscious about his last name.Lamont was a fourth generation legacy...
Tanzania’s president is elected by popular vote. The prime minister is appointed by the president and serves as the government??s representative in the elected National Assembly...
Barring a change in Harvard policy, the University’s endowment holdings in Tatneft—a Russian oil company with alleged ties to the Sudanese government??will disappear from the public eye when the company delists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in the coming weeks...
...November 2005, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected president of war-torn Liberia, becoming the world’s first black female president and Africa’s first elected female head of state. A 1971 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government??where she earned a master’s in public administration—Johnson-Sirleaf is a former World Bank and Citibank economist who has promised to bring stability and economic development to her West African nation...
When he chose to write his senior thesis on the Zimbabwean government??s manipulation of the media, Amar C. Bakshi ’06 never thought he’d be a target of the repressive regime himself.In late December, he traveled to the country’s capital to conduct research. But Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization alleged that he was “taking government information.” As he attempted to leave the country, intelligence officers pulled him off a plane and threw him in jail for five days...