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...really shows the power that the Lebanese people were able to bring to bear in a completely peaceful way,” said Bodine, who was formerly the U.S. ambassador to Yemen...
...household with other school-age children. But a growing number of empty nesters are flinging open their doors to children from around the world. Despite global political turmoil, in the 2003-04 academic year more than 27,000 high school students from countries such as South Korea, Yemen, Uzbekistan and Peru lived with U.S. families, according to the Council on Standards for International Travel, the industry's trade association. Although the number of hosts who are empty nesters is not known, Ted Bennett, president of the Foundation for International Travel, says it is rising. Many, he observes, are boomers...
...Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government announced yesterday that it has agreed to assist the small Middle Eastern city-state of Dubai in establishing a school of government to train its next generation of leaders. Former United States Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine will be the first Executive Director of the Cambridge-based Middle East Governance Initiative, a Kennedy School program...
Besides serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001, Bodine has served various posts related to the Middle East, inlcuding acting as the Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad from 1980 to 1983 and as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. More recently she was appointed coordinator for post-conflict reconstruction for Baghdad and the central regions of Iraq...
These short-sighted, stricter travel limits will inevitably hinder Harvard’s newfound—and critically important—goal of providing students with a broader, international perspective. To cite one regional example: now that Lebanon and Yemen are off-limits, students wishing to travel to the Middle East are left to choose between the Gulf, Jordan and Egypt. Cynics may contend that these countries can bestow enough perspective on the Middle East to suffice, but we suggest that these cynics try convincing a Lebanese national that his culture is exactly the same as Jordan?...