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...Johnson-Sirleaf said she returned to her home country, hoping to use her experience at the Kennedy School as a weapon to fight corruption, poverty, and “the mediocrity and low productivity” of Liberian government. She added that many of the students graduating will face “similar circumstances” when they leave the Ivory Tower today...
Citing the challenges Liberia faces in rebuilding infrastructure and restoring stability after a brutal 14-year Civil War, Johnson-Sirleaf nevertheless said she was optimistic for the future...
Obama’s historic victory also made ripples well beyond America’s borders. At the Harvard Kennedy School’s Class Day ceremony yesterday, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf told graduates to “think big” and “let your dreams soar...
...After all who would have thought that a minority—albeit a Harvard graduate—would change forever the American political landscape,” said Johnson-Sirleaf, the world’s first black woman president...
...choosing a running mate is all it would take to deflate Obama’s support or image, then he isn’t the successor to JFK and Reagan that so many hope he can be (the two big charisma kings chose the distinctly un-charismatic Lyndon B. Johnson and George H.W. Bush as their running mates...