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...will demand more and "weigh in on national policy," as O'Rourke, the city-council member, puts it. Talk of legalizing marijuana is growing; the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March heard prominent drug researchers argue that cannabis should be sold legally and taxed like tobacco. Ernesto Zedillo and César Gaviria, former Presidents of Mexico and Colombia, respectively, have said the same. And Mexico's Congress is again debating decriminalization of marijuana use, after backing off the issue a few years ago under intense pressure from the Bush Administration...
...policy priority for the Bush Administration. Two wars, tattered Israeli-Palestinian relations and the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea have conspired to consign the region to the political backburner. But this Brookings report - issued by a cadre of decorated policy-makers, led by former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo and former U.S. Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering - issues a pointed message to incoming President Barack Obama. Emphasizing Latin American relations isn't just essential for the region, they say, but also for America's own peace and prosperity. Tackling transnational challenges ranging from clean energy to Cuba...
...line that drew hearty applause. Kennedy School economist Jeffrey A. Frankel, who first met Fox in 1999 and who taught Calderón when he studied at Harvard, said that he sees a positive trajectory in Mexican governance. (Fox was preceded by Yale-graduate and PRI-member Ernesto Zedillo, who helped to dismantle PRI’s political monopoly.) “Fox was the first outsider to be able to take advantage of the new system [and] to challenge the entrenched powerbrokers successfully,” Frankel said. But, Frankel continued, while Fox had difficulty getting his policies passed...
Summers will serve on the panel alongside Rajat Gupta, chairman of the board of the India School of Business; Amina J. Ibrahim, senior special assistant to the president of Nigeria; Kavita N. Ramdas, president of the Global Fund for Women; Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico; and Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia...
...interesting insights to share from his front-row seat on the stage of presidential election history,” he said. John Lithgow ’67 gave last year’s Commencement address. He was preceded by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2004 and Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico, in 2003. —Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...