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...reality, Africa is a huge continent where most people are not starving; where over the past decade democracy has begun to take hold and Africans have started to grapple with their own problems; and where more than 90% of respondents to a recent BBC poll said they were proud to be African. Ethiopia itself has changed. It's more democratic, it's attracting investment and it's better prepared to face the periodic droughts that suck it dry. Sure, Africa has plenty of troubles: war, droughts, poverty and ethnic clashes, but Do They Know It's Christmas? doesn't address...
...long conversations with Robert Mondavi and his two sons, Tim and Michael. When Michael shrugs off the Mondavis' failure to convince Guibert and his neighbors around the Languedoc village of Aniane to sell out, and suggests that one day there will be wine from Mars, there's a proud sense of dynasty. But a year ago, the Mondavis, who took their family firm public in 1993 to better underwrite their galactic ambitions, were squeezed out by the company's board. It's an irony that Nossiter savors as proof that the battle between the local and the global...
Crimson pride may be in ample supply these days. But in the 1930s, Harvard did not have much to be proud of. At a time when it could have been a voice of moral and intellectual responsibility in America, our university played a role in legitimizing the Nazi regime. Today, in the face of growing evidence to this effect, the administration still refuses to apologize for or even acknowledge its predecessors’ complicity. This is not only an affront to the Jewish community. The administration’s silence shames...
...tremendously proud of this senior class,” said a visibly emotional Harvard coach Tim Murphy after the game. “They made a goal to make this happen nine months ago and were unwavering in their commitment to see it through...
...experience for running a sluggish bureaucracy like the State Department. Here at Stanford University, where you served as provost before going to Washington, they don't think so. Even your critics speak your name with respect as they recall the dispatch and efficiency you demonstrated in dealing with a proud faculty. Somebody who could handle the barons of academe can also handle State and the Pentagon. Finally, you have the ear of a President who trusts and respects you. That's an asset Powell never had. Now to the tough stuff. You were raised in the realist tradition of statecraft...