Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rawlins cited Annan's role in spear-heading successful initiatives within the UN such as the international treaty on land mines and the establishment of the first permanent criminal court to try genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, examples that elicited applause from the audience.
While some work in South Africa did occur in the 1980s and earlier, it tended to focus on the problems of apartheid and on strategies for the country's future, said Robert I. Rothberg, development associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID).
Harvard Law School recently received a $5 million donation from Household International Inc., its largest gift in recent times.
"We are now an international college," Lewis wrote. "What does it mean to have citizenship as one of our responsibilities when we have students from China and Russia and Saudi Arabia at the dining table with us? Still, I think we are an American institution and embody largely American values...
Today, there is perhaps a higher proportion of college-goers who will not buy this reasoning than there was a generation or two ago, but one benefit of the last 30 years is that today's college students who continue to believe in their obligation to the greater whole are...