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Fareed Zakaria challenges Harvard graduates

By Johanna Kaiser

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 25, 2012

The world is in the midst of an “astonishing age of progress,” acclaimed journalist and author Fareed Zakaria told graduating Harvard University students Thursday, and he challenged them to help shape it. “When we come together, when we put aside petty difference, when we cooperate, the results are astounding,” Zakaria, host of the CNN international affairs program “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” and editor at large of Time magazine, told students, alumni, and families at the afternoon program of the college’s commencement.

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