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Harvard Law School (HLS) honored Sadako Ogata, the former United Nations (UN) high commissioner for refugees, by awarding her its sixth annual Great Negotiator Award yesterday. Ogata, who is known for her work in several refugee crises, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Iraq, said she was very surprised to be chosen for the honor. “I never thought of myself as a negotiator,” she said. HLS’s Program on Negotiation (PON) presents the reward to individuals who have created innovative and lasting solutions to disputes on the international stage. Ogata served as High Commissioner...
...ordeal over: Powerful aftershocks continue, while the lack of relief aid is putting more lives at risk. Foreign assistance is being rushed into the Himalayas by helicopters and pack mules, but the scale of the catastrophe is overwhelming. According to the UN, nearly half a million people are still in need of food, medical help and tents. Their need is all the more urgent as icy winter storms bear down on homeless victims. "There is very little time left," says James Morris, executive director of the World Food Program. Meanwhile, the UN has launched another appeal for emergency earthquake funds...
...course, it is not surprising that this administration should respond to a health problem with the military. The military has been its “answer” of choice to not only international law (“UN diplomacy is too slow!”), but to unemployment (“Enlist!”), education (“Enlist and get college paid for!”), and a host of other national problems...
...high school senior, I found a video tape with a couple of old “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” episodes on it. On a Model UN field trip that year, I popped it in, and a bus filled with high-schoolers settled back to recapture their youth. While the theme song remained catchy (They’re the world’s most fearsome fighting team/They’re the heroes on the half-shell and they’re green!), we had a rude awakening soon after: the show was awful. Some other undergrads shared...
Well, Gervais has a new sitcom, “Extras,” and fortunately we can watch it Sundays on HBO at 10:30 p.m. in its unprocessed, un-pasteurized British form. The new program follows Gervais as Andy Millman, a struggling extra (or, as he coins himself, background artist) trying desperately to get that coveted line in a film. Obviously the biggest challenge for Gervais with this series is to distance himself from his iconic incarnation as David Brent. Like “The Office,” “Extras” follows the insatiable quest...