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...ensuing question-and-answer session, President Kagame addressed topics ranging from Rwanda’s female-majority parliament—the first in the world??to Chinese and Indian investments in Africa...
...even some public officials have likened the current crisis to the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Savings and Loans debacle of the late 1980s. And who better than Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, that erudite, Ivy League scholar of the Great Depression, to steer the world??s largest economy away from the abyss of the past...
...Barry Hogan says of All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP), which he founded in 1999 as a smaller, more intimate alternative to Britain’s larger music festivals. But over the past nine years, Hogan has grown ATP into one of the world??s most robust music festivals, and later this month, ATP will hold its first festival in the New York City area, featuring shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine in their first American show in 16 years.According to Hogan, My Bloody Valentine’s appearance at ATP NY will be the culmination...
...thankfully—dissipated. But Zakaria’s argument that countries like China and India will begin playing exceedingly significant economic and cultural roles on the world stage still sticks with me. Zakaria, the prominent Newsweek foreign affairs columnist, argues in “The Post-American World?? that the United States’ position as sole superpower will, due largely to its arrogant foreign policy, eventually become a thing of the past. Throughout “The Post-American World,” Zakaria breaks the Westernized lens through which we too often view history, illuminating...
...written extensively about structuring complex financial transaction, also took a brief leave of absence in the late 1970s from the Business School to serve as the Ford Foundation’s director of investments. “I am delighted to be joining the Board of one of the world??s leading alternative asset managers,” Light said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Blackstone’s management team as they set their strategy for taking advantage of opportunities in the world today.” Stephen A. Schwarzman...