Word: mexicanization
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...delegation of Harvard administrators and senior faculty, led by University President Lawrence H. Summers, trekked to Mexico City last week for a two-day fiesta of cocktail balls and panel discussions with top Mexican government officials and prominent alumni donors. The visit came almost exactly 10 years after Summers, then a top official at the Treasury Department, orchestrated the multi-billion-dollar loan package that rescued the Mexican peso from free-fall...
...removed from the media maelstrom over his remarks on women in science, Summers received a warm welcome from President Vicente Fox as well as Mexican business and academic leaders...
...Mexicans were happy to remember that [Summers] was influential in helping the U.S. come up with $50 billion to help the Mexican economy restructure its loans” in early 1995, said Biorn Maybury-Lewis ’80, executive director of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), who was one of several University officials in Mexico last week for a string of Harvard events...
...significant portion of the Mexican GDP was represented around that table,” Maybury-Lewis said...
...October, the University announced a partnership with Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology that will allow 20 to 25 Mexican grad students each year to pursue Ph.D’s at Harvard for free...