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...that most of the business attendees here are "self-lacerating." Second, the critics continue to fail, in my view, to articulate a true alternative to the business-led model of globalization on offer at the WEF. At the opening press conference of the Public Eye on Davos, an umbrella NGO group, those on the platform were asked who the intellectual leaders and heroes of the anti-globalization movement might be. Apart from praise for the writings of Nobel laureate and former chief economist of the World Bank Joe Stiglitz, there was an embarrassing silence. But the critics of the globalization...
...Durban, the behavior of some in the NGO forum was contemptible. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were on sale; flyers asking (approvingly) WHAT IF HITLER HAD WON? were freely displayed. In more than one place in its rambling, incoherent, 474-paragraph-long "Declaration," the forum declared Israel to be a "racist, apartheid state." (The full text of the declaration is available at www.racism.org.za I urge readers to look at it.) Michael Salberg, a New York City attorney attending the conference as an observer for the Anti-Defamation League, says of the forum, "There is no way to have...
...hindsight, there were clues to Kim's obstinate leadership style. His single-minded pursuit of the presidency is legendary. Kang Won Yong, head of the Peace Forum, an NGO that promotes North-South relations, first met Kim when the future President came to Seoul from Cholla half a century ago. After dictator Park Chung Hee kidnapped and then released the dissident in 1973, Kim met furtively with Kang in a garage. Afraid of wiretaps, Kim used improvised sign language: a big nose meant the Americans, a tap on the shoulder signified epaulets?Korea's generals. Kim said just one thing...
DIED. DUONG VAN MINH, 86, Vietnamese general known as "Big Minh," who organized the 1963 coup to overthrow South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem; in Pasadena, Calif. Big Minh (so called in part for his 6-ft., 200-lb. size), believed to have ordered Diem's assassination--with two raised fingers of his right hand--went on to become the last President of South Vietnam...
...soon-to-be graduate of the Masters of Public Administration at the Kennedy School, Duncan co-founded "Global Justice" as a non-governmental organization (NGO) to "mobilize students in the U.S. with students internationally to promote global justice and responsibility through education, advocacy and better public policies...