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...development aid target of 0.7 percent of GDP is hardly a new concept. The number was born because of the work of the World Bank’s Commission on International Development—called the Pearson Commission after its chair, former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson—which delivered its report in 1969. The next year, the UN General Assembly adopted the 0.7 percent target as the international standard for foreign aid contribution. In the 35 years since, rich countries have repeatedly pledged to meet that target, but only a handful—Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg...
...musical credentials. UN adviser Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, UN Secretary-General’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the all-party Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs have all called on Martin to meet Lester B. Pearson’s original goal...
...hours, perhaps, many Canadians will think seriously about foreign aid, debt cancellation, and “trade justice” for the first time. But when the music stops, Prime Minister Paul Martin will be left with a choice: finally commit to the standard set 36 years ago by Lester Pearson, or remain, with the United States and Russia, one of the three G8 countries not to make such an important commitment...
...DIED. Lester Cole, 81, prolific screenwriter (None Shall Escape, 1944; Objective, Burma!, 1945) and one of the "Hollywood Ten," writers and directors convicted of contempt of Congress and blacklisted in the 1940s after they refused to testify about Communist infiltration of the industry; in San Francisco...
...that measures its veteran teachers, does so by testing them not for general language skills but in the specific subjects they teach. So far, 49,000 have taken the Georgia test, and some 12% have failed. Here too the feeling is strong that the Texas approach was misguided. Said Lester Solomon, Georgia's director of teacher assessment: "Nobody in their right mind believes that [the Texas] test can measure a teacher's performance." --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta