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Several prominent figures who delivered past Gordon lectures at Harvard have been—or have gone on to be—heads of state. The list includes President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia this year; then-President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique in 2004; President Festus G. Mogae of Botswana in 2000; former British Prime Minister John Major in 1999; and former President George H.W. Bush in 1998. And it appears that Pataki aspires to the title of president as well. While he has not officially announced a bid for his party’s nomination in 2008, his political...
...save Darfur: tell Sudan it can either accept the U.N. force or face war against the world's most powerful military alliance. Though the U.N. can't fight its way into Darfur, NATO can. If it does, al-Bashir could end up following Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's Charles Taylor to a war-crimes trial at the Hague. Confronted with that prospect, al-Bashir might conclude that a U.N. peacekeeping force...
...country still recovering from the horrors of two catastrophic civil conflicts during which “the economy and state collapsed,” she said. “Our objective is to make government work again.” It’s an ambitious objective in Liberia, whose capital, Monrovia, went without electricity for 15 years before Sirleaf came to power this past January—and restored power this past July. “We are at a critical junction as a nation,” Sirleaf said. Liberia was a relatively peaceful country from its founding...
With the election of Felipe Calderón Hinjosa as president of Mexico earlier this week, Harvard-related politicians capped off an impressive year that included electoral victories in Liberia, Canada, and Colombia...
...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...