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From: Boris Nikolic Sent: 3/23/2012 7:10:58 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein (jeeyacation@gmail.com) [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: FW: World Bank Nominee Attachments: image005.jpg; image006.jpg The Atlantic Home Friday, March 23, 2012 • Politics Massoud Hayoun - Massoud Hayoun writes for and produces The Atlantic's International channel. How Jim Yong Kim, Obama's World Bank Pick, Changed Global Health Aid By Massoud Hayoun Mar 23 2012, 2:04 PM ET The international public health work that made Kim, now the president's nominee for World Bank head, such a respected figure. President Obama introduces Jim Yong Kim as his nominee to be the next president of the World Bank /Reuters President Obama announced today that he will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank. Although Kim is a physician by training, officials have observed that Kim's role as a key player in global health and development, notably with his role in the organization Partners in Health (PIH), makes him a key candidate to change the attitudes of developing-world nations. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028781 The following excerpts from Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, a biography of anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer, detail Kim's bold efforts to combat international HIV and tuberculosis epidemics with PIH: Some months after the official founding of PIH, [co-founder] Paul Farmer expanded the group, adding a fellow Harvard anthropology and medical student, a Korean American named Jim Yong Kim... Farmer offered what for Jim Kim was a convincing vision of the new organization. The reality was less impressive -- a charity with a board of advisers and no hired staff... They talked about issues such as political correctness, which Jim Kim defined as follows: "It's a very well- crafted tool to distract us. A very self-centered activity. Clean up your own vocabulary so you can show everybody you have the social capital of having been in circles where these […]