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Sachs has established himself as an internationally renowned economist who is currently advising United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on how to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals—a major global initiative to cut worldwide poverty in half...
Like no other class, ours was subject to the dreams of the technology era and the subsequent slap in the face that reality dealt when that bubble finally burst. We were both the beneficiaries and the victims of the technology economy at the turn of the millennium. And despite the condition of our job searches this year, we’ve lived perhaps the most connected and technology-centric lives in the history of Harvard, and it’s been largely to our benefit...
...running al-Qaeda operations, and his arrest, says Roland Jacquard, a leading French expert on Islamic terrorism, was "an enormous, stupendous blow to al-Qaeda." Abu Zubaydah seems to have specialized in organizing al-Qaeda operatives based in Europe and North America. Ahmed Ressam, the Montreal-based "millennium bomber" captured at the end of 1999 while attempting to cross from Canada into Washington State with explosives and bomb timers, testified that Abu Zubaydah planned al-Qaeda operations in the U.S. After Sept. 11, according to a U.S. official, American intelligence learned that one of the men trailed by Ken Williams...
...leading mercenaries compete in a secret tournament under special rules. In it, soccer becomes a game of trick shots, small goals and fancy footwork - oddly like basketball (which, despite Nike's $155 million spend this year on soccer endorsements, remains its best revenue source). This month in London's Millennium Dome and 12 cities from Beijing to Buenos Aires, an estimated 1 million youngsters are going into the 9-m-by-24 m cages to play Scorpion KO. Rules: three-on-three, three minutes a game, first goal wins, no crying. Special equipment: maybe a pair of Nike's street...
...True, there are signs that Bush's "compassionate conservatism" will soon include more money for the world's poor. The President, who met Bono for the first time earlier this year, will visit Africa in 2003 and recently announced his "Millennium Challenge", a $10 billion increase in American aid funding over fiscal years 2004-2006. That is more than his Democratic predecessor put on the table, but would still leave US foreign economic assistance the lowest among major industrial nation as a percentage of output. O'Neill is clearly moved by the human cost of Africa's underdevelopment...