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<title><![CDATA[Former World Fellows Network and Learn From Each Other at Yale Forum]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7046</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When she was last on the Yale campus as a 2007 World Fellow, Marlene Malahoo Forte of Jamaica was already leading a hectic life, serving as president of an association working for fundamental reform of the island nation's judicial system, training Jamaican police and teaching law at the University of the West Indies.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Government of Japan Honors Yale University Professor William W. Kelly]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7059</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:20:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Japanese government will confer the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, on Professor William W. Kelly of Yale University for his contributions to the study of Japanese society and culture in the U.S., and for his promotion of scholarly and educational exchange between Japan and the U.S. The Order of the Rising Sun was the first national decoration to be created by the Japanese government in 1875, and it is the country's second most prestigious decoration after the Order of the Chrysanthemum. A conferment ceremony for Kelly will soon be held at Yale University.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Alumni Travel to Brazil to Promote Global Sustainability]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7057</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:39:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yale alumni will travel to Rio De Janeiro October 30 &ndash; November 8 to collaborate with leading Brazilian social entrepreneurs working to preserve the degraded Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. The Yale volunteers include business consultants, lawyers, medical doctors and other health professionals, as well as environmental consultants and engineers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute to Honor Infosys Co-Founder Nandan Nilekani with Leadership Award]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7052</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nandan Nilekani, Infosys Technologies Ltd. co-founder and chairman of India&rsquo;s Unique Identification Database Authority, will accept the &ldquo;Legend in Leadership Award&rdquo; of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute at a ceremony to be held in New Delhi on November 6, 2009. Nilekani is the first Indian to receive this prestigious award.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Hosts Conference on the Economic Crisis and Financial Globalization]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7044</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:09:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization will bring to campus some of the world&rsquo;s leading experts on the financial crisis and its effects on the integration of the world economy for a conference titled &ldquo;Financial Globalization: Culprit, Survivor or Casualty of the Great Crisis?&rdquo;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Thad Dunning Wins International Book Prize Named for Gaddis Smith]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7026</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Thad Dunning, associate professor of political science, has been awarded the 2009 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center for his book "Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes."]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Faculty Member Leads External Review of World Bank Group Reform]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7011</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The World Bank Group yesterday released a report on modernizing its governance after an external review headed by Ernesto Zedillo, the Frederick Iseman &rsquo;74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former president of Mexico.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale University Convenes Forum of Emerging Global Leaders]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6999</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:29:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yale University will host more than 100 emerging leaders from around the world at its &ldquo;Return to Yale Forum,&rdquo; October 28-31, 2009. The participants are all Yale World Fellows, a select group of global professionals from a range of fields who have undergone intensive leadership training at Yale.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Leaders to Convene for Yale Leadership Summit in India]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6967</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:56:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The internationally-renowned Yale CEO Leadership Summit will hold its first global program in New Delhi, India on November 5 and 6, 2009. Leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society from across the United States, Europe, and India will convene to explore the theme of Navigating the Global Oceans of Opportunity for Indian Business.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Greenberg Center for International Programs Is Dedicated]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6966</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:19:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A formal dedication of Yale's new Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center, a state-of-the-art facility supporting the University's burgeoning agenda of international programs, took place on Sept. 21.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Arab Alumni Association and American University of Beirut Host International Conference on Urban Sustainability]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6936</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:15:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Ziad Baroud, the Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities, the Yale Arab Alumni Association will stage the largest Yale alumni event ever to take place in the Arab Middle East, an international conference titled Transnational Tides and the Future of the Arab City.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale University Statement Regarding Alleged Remarks Made by Former Yale President]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6926</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:18:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yale University has been contacted regarding rumors that Benno C. Schmidt Jr., former president of Yale University, criticized Chinese universities and the country&rsquo;s higher education system in general. These alleged disparaging remarks purportedly appeared in a Yale publication.]]></description>
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