WASHINGTON — After the president of Harvard hailed him as a "national leader but a local servant," after the pastor read the "Let us now praise famous men" passage from the Bible and after the cellist Yo-Yo Ma honored him by performing a Gershwin prelude, Senator Edward M. Kennedy lumbered across the antique stage.
In other words, an Arab-American hero was converted into a trusty, but childish, local servant.
It's reforming the police, improving the courts, training local civil servants and building prisons.
In Mozambique, says Oxfam, a British NGO, donors are spending a staggering $350m a year on 3,500 technical consultants, enough to hire 400,000 local civil servants.
Mr Caldera, whose federal government must pay up to 40% of the local civil servants' salaries, has proved reluctant to take on regional politicians.
To that end, Alberta set up the Alberta Investment Management Corporation in 2008 to run the SWF on commercial lines, along with various pension funds for local civil servants.
The prime minister, Peter O'Neill, told the PNG parliament he was concerned about foreign advisers spying while their presence caused local public servants to slack off.
He was told by local civil servants that nobody had any clarity because Sweden would have to take decisions after the vote.
Executives from Tullow, Total and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (better known as CNOOC), as well as local civil servants, conferred with Mr Museveni at his farm near the Rwandan border in late April.
