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They tend to be an optimistic lot, the bankers and business leaders, politicians and pundits, who every year make their way to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Those who have power and influence often have much to be optimistic about, to be programmed to lift up their eyes to the hills - of which Davos has plenty - and see more prosperity coming their...
...help, to get food,” said Wazhma Frogh, a gender and development specialist in Afghanistan. The panel, titled “Engendering Peace: Security Through an Inclusive Lens,” featured four women from Afghanistan, Israel, Colombia, and Palestine at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Wednesday night. Other participants included reporters, human rights lawyers, and grassroots organizers. The talk was part of the annual Women and Security Executive Program, which explores the ability of women to seek out compromise during times of intense conflict. “I think that men are more willing...
...leaders wearing turbans, yarmulkes, head scarves, and the huge ornate crosses of the Ethiopian Patriarch lined the escalators. Media luminaries from NBC's Tom Brokaw to al-Jazeera's Ghida Fahkry-Khane held forth on pressing issues. But an unspoken question hung over the first Alliance of Civilizations Annual Forum: could such a gathering lead to real change...
...Yard, know that I’m more concerned with getting to section on time than with getting caught up in a tragic identity struggle, agonizing over the need to choose between black and white. That said, I expected to find a vibrant and active multiracial community and a forum for discussion in college, and the lack thereof has been disheartening...
...Bloomberg had no immediate reaction to the formation of the draft committee. Once a Republican (and before that a Democrat) who has recently become an independent, Bloomberg last week attended a forum in Oklahoma that centered in part on the need for a bipartisan-minded candidate. At that forum, as he has before, he told participants that he was "not a candidate...