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Prairie View's celebration of Women's History Month continued with a lecture by Gaynelle Jones at the School of Architecture last Thursday.
The program, which was hosted by the university's Office of Cultural Development opened to a modest crowd of faculty and students.
Gaynelle Jones, whose grandfather served as a professor at Prairie View, is the first African-American woman to serve on the Texas Court of Appeals.
A graduate of Boston College of Law, Jones has served on the US Attorney General's Advisory Committee and is currently the director of Standards of Business Conduct at Hewlett Packard Company and an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law School.
Jones spoke on the evolution of women's rights in the United States, and the importance of women in the political history of the United States.
Dictating democracy in Ethiopia.
The article continues with a lot of blah blah about democracy and good governance. The reality is that our kids are confronted with the TPLF/EPRDF propaganda and lies. The state is responsible to facilitate education but should stay far away from political indoctrination. Just as everyone is free to believe in what kind of religion one chooses, so should it be with ones vision on society, call it political views. This civic and ethical education/indoctrination is invented after the current rulers realized that without force or fraud they would loose every ballot that they would organize. So now they think by gulping their empty phrases at us on the ETV and on our youth with these books and plasma screens precooked party politics, that they can win us back. It shows their stupidity.
Washington Japanwatch / Time ripe for a Japan-US FTA
In a last-minute deal reached earlier this week, the United States and South Korea finalized negotiations on a free trade agreement that economists estimate may boost bilateral trade to 100 billion dollars a year. The agreement still has some loose ends--and must be ratified by both countries' legislative bodies--but if passed it will become the largest U.S. trade pact outside of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Additionally, it will represent a major achievement for a bilateral relationship that has become strained in recent years. Attention may now turn to Japan, Asia's largest economic power, as the next logical FTA partner for the United States. With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scheduled to meet U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington later this month, it is an opportune time for both leaders to seriously discuss a bilateral FTA of their own.
Strategists Bank on Budget-Neutral Policies
In a suite of offices three doors down Massachusetts Avenue from the Brookings Institution headquarters, Hillary Clinton's closest Wall Street allies are drawing up economic policy for the next Democratic administration. The offices belong to the Hamilton Project, a small think tank created by Robert E. Rubin, Bill Clinton's Treasury secretary and key economic adviser, and former Treasury deputy secretary Roger C. Altman, who would be a front-runner for the same job in a new Clinton administration. The project's research, so far, would be familiar to students of the first Clinton administration: creative, wonky proposals for softening the impact of globalization without interfering with international trade, most of them crafted with an eye to fiscal austerity and a balanced budget.
Deputy PM receives Russian news agency
Ha Noi Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung praised yesterday the results of recent co-operation between the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS and the Vietnam News Agency (VNA). Hung received ITAR-TASS deputy director general M.V. Kalmykov in Ha Noi. He welcomed the ITAR-TASS delegation, which was on a working visit to Viet Nam under a long-term co-operation deal between the two news agencies. Deputy PM Hung congratulated the Russian peoples great achievements in national development. He said friendly Vietnamese and Russian relations had been fostered by many generations and further promoted in the recent past through meetings of the two countries leaders with a view to promoting comprehensive co-operation. The Deputy PM said he believed that the two news agencies co-operation would further develop in the coming years and they would serve as a bridge between businesses in order to promote Viet Nam-Russian economic co-operation.
Lassiter completes second stage of Economic Development Institute
Jody Lassiter, executive director of Logan Economic Alliance for Development (LEAD) recently completed Session II of the Economic Development Institute (OU/EDI) conducted by the University of Oklahoma on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Ind. (IUPUI).For the second year in a row, Lassiter was chosen for a full-tuition scholarship provided by the Kentucky Association for Economic Development (KAED) to attend this session of OU/EDI to continue his professional training.The Institute is a three-session program, each one week long, which provides a broad spectrum of advanced education for the economic development professional and is accredited by the International Economic Development Council.OU/EDI classes focus on three major core areas, including Business Retention and Expansion, Real Estate, and Finance, as well as areas of concentration in Marketing, Strategic Planning, and Managing Economic Development Organizations.
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