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...Harvard knows that students are watching them on this issue,” Hamilton, a student in a Harvard Law School/Kennedy School of Government joint-degree program, said...
...channel is a 50-50 joint venture between the state-owned France T?l?visions and the country's biggest private channel, TF1. Its half-hourly news bulletins are broadcast in both languages from its studios south of Paris; an Arabic version is planned for next year, and there are even provisional plans for programs in Spanish. By cable and satellite, France 24 claims to reach 190 million households in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as viewers in Washington, D.C., and New York. For the rest of the world, otherwise adrift in a sea of what the French...
...Chirac is normally a stickler for promoting the prestige of the French language; he famously stormed out of a joint press conference in Brussels last year when the head of the French employers' association had the unpatriotic audacity to speak in English. But for France 24, the message is apparently considered more important than the linguistic medium: after all, outside of West Africa none of the target zones is francophone. So how is the vaunted French view on the world different? "It's a little less binary, a little less Manichean, more panoramic," says G?rard Saint-Paul, a former Washington...
...From his headquarters on Oahu, Fallon hasn't been shy about flexing U.S. diplomacy the past two years. Despite wariness of Pentagon hawks, he has pressed to improve relations with Beijing, for example, organizing a joint naval exercise last fall with the Chinese navy. Fallon believes diplomacy is as important a weapon as all the ships, planes and soldiers he commands. Some of that broader view "comes with old age," Fallon told TIME in 2005. Bush now hopes that kind of thinking from the admiral in Asia can help rescue a troubled war in a very different part...
Richard has also gained praise for her efforts to globalize Cambridge’s image. She has traveled throughout the world raising money and, in the process, raising the school’s profile. She has encouraged students to study abroad and backed a joint research effort with...