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...their next assignment in the U.S., they received an outstanding-service award from grateful Malaysian officials. Sadly, no big boxes of Scooby Snacks were handed out, but Flo and Lucky did receive nifty medals that complemented their lustrous coats. Their efforts were so effective that the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which had the Labradors trained to identify certain chemicals present on optical discs, reported that Malaysian bootleggers had placed a $28,000 bounty on the dogs' heads. Luckily the hounds escaped any would-be assassins...
...Malaysia is hardly unique in Asia for the ubiquity of pirated DVDs. The U.S.-based MPA estimated that in 2005 its six member studios lost $1.2 billion to Asian movie pirates. In Shanghai, where I used to live, a popular shop called Movie World started up in March offering thousands of bootleg DVDs to a mainly foreign clientele. But competition is fierce in China. The next week another store opened for business across the street. Its English name? Even Better Than Movie World...
...social and political phenomena.” Rodrik’s most recent book is “One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.” After graduating summa cum laude from the College, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in economics and an MPA from Princeton University. This November, Rodrik will deliver the Albert O. Hirschman Prize Lecture in New York City. “What I thought I would do is deliver a speech tentatively titled, ‘How much have we learned about development policy since Albert Hirschman...
Lester R. Brown MPA...
...least three Harvard grads are current or soon-to-be national leaders: Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, MPA Class of 1971; Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, MPA Class of 1980; and Mexican President-elect Felipé Calderón Hinojosa, MPA Class...