Word: tsunami
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...whole deal, as 42 might say, was 43's idea. Looking for a way to showcase the U.S. relief effort after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami last December, George W. Bush wondered if his two immediate predecessors in the White House might be willing to suit up and hit the road. He asked his chief of staff, "Do you think they'd work together?" The easy, reflex answer would have been no. George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton came from different generations, from different social classes and from opposing political parties. Their 1992 face-off wasn't exactly...
...assumed that the President's father would be an easy sell. And Card had been taking a lot of calls from Clinton--calls that came in late on Sunday nights, sometimes early in the morning--and he had been struck by how much Clinton seemed to know about the tsunami disaster and how much he wanted to help. Card knew that both men still had most of the world's leaders, moguls and wise men on their speed dials and could make things happen quickly. And so Card made some calls of his own and, within 10 minutes, had both...
...additional faculty of the highest caliber, adding to our strong team of professors who are focusing on this important area of scholarship.” The Saudi businessman and philanthropist, who is the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company in Riyadh, has donated $19 million to the Southeast Asia tsunami relief effort and, in an unrelated act, also plans to fund the construction of 10,000 housing units for poor Saudi Arabian families. According to a March 2005 issue of Forbes Magazine, the Saudi prince has a net worth of $23.7 billion, and—until last year?...
...Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Undergraduate Council (UC), the Earthquake Relief Group, which Mir heads, hopes that the show will help them meet their goal of $50,000 of aid for the devastated region. “Keeping in mind that Harvard gave $150,000 for the Tsunami and $600,000 for Katrina, [our goal] is not that much,” Mir says. A sudden change in University policy this fall has made meeting that goal more challenging than expected. After matching student donations dollar for dollar during Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, Harvard revised its approach...
...power for the U.S. military as an aim to persuade others to want the goals it advocates. “Power is the ability to influence others to get outcomes,” he said. For example, Nye pointed to how the U.S. Navy’s assistance in tsunami relief efforts led to a measured increase in Indonesian support for U.S. government. He said that soft power is not a normative concept and thus it is not always good to employ it. Similarly, hard power, which he described as the use of force, isn’t necessarily worse...