i'll talk to rwanda's president, paul kagame. >>> it's been graduation season in the united states and i was honored enough to be asked to provide some words of advice at two universities this year, duke and harvard, where i got my ph.d. many of you have been interested in what i said at those events so i thought i would give you a quick summary. this has been a tough year mostly everywhere, but i am less gloomy than most. i think back on the crises we have already come through. remember the fears after the financial crisis began in late 2007? in the 12 months following, the economic peak in 2008, industrial production fell as much as it did in the first year of the great depression. equity prices and global trade actually fell more. yet, no global depression followed. or remember the period after 9/11 when most experts predicted that we had entered an age of terrorism? in fact, groups like al qaeda have been battered over the past decade. why? in both those cases, human beings responded to the crisis. governments around the world cooperated and acted. when we look at our problems, eco