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...Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan will deliver the keynote address. Annan has presided over the U.N. since 1997 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for his work in strengthening the role of the U.N. as an international peacekeeping force. Today, he is considered one of the world??s most influential diplomats and leaders in the fight against the AIDS epidemic in Africa...
Annan said that the U.S.-led war in Iraq had also detracted from the global effort to raise living standards among the world??s poor...
...world??s foremost Irish scholars, he specialized in modern Irish literature and the history of the early Irish annals, a project the fluent Irish speaker once said would take him “25 lifetimes” to complete...
...today’s 353rd Harvard Commencement ceremony, the University will award nine honorary doctoral degrees to some of the world??s most accomplished academics and public figures...
...Kennedy School, by contrast—where 42 percent of my classmates come from 80 nations of the world??I learned to address the issues globally and internationally first and, after that, regionally and locally. I learned how people from disparate backgrounds and from warring nations can work together and trust when their governments stand aside. What a godsend it will be when my classmates become the leaders of their respective countries. The world will at long last have a true chance to achieve peace...