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...Wall I read your article asking "Why the Wall Came Down" [Nov. 9]. What a swizz, claiming Reagan did it! Surely it was the epochal election of a Polish Pope, the most charismatic in centuries, and his triumphant return to Poland, that widened earlier cracks in the wall. Margaret Thatcher was the first Western leader to recognise Gorbachev as "someone we can do business with" while Washington policymakers stalled. Paddy McGarvey, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND...
...between populist and reformist. What we need most of all is realism." Begg agrees and warns against the risk of pursuing bad policy for short-term electoral advantages. But, he adds, "the huge ideological disputes of the '70s and '80s are simply not on the agenda. Mitterand vs. Thatcher, talk of renationanlizing industry - that's gone. Instead, the debate will ultimately be around the details." Begg says how, and how fast, specific reforms should be enacted is ultimately what pols in the West are arguing over. The basic tenets of modern democratic capitalism, he concludes, are not really at risk...
...growth," CEO Lloyd Blankfein said at a breakfast put on by FORTUNE. "Once the economy starts to turn, we get very involved." In a discussion about morality and markets at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Goldman Sachs International vice chairman Brian Griffiths, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, described giant paychecks for bankers as an economic necessity. "We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," he said...
...make history.” is often used to justify weekend Facebook photos, but many do not know that these words originated in an article about Puritan funeral services by a University of New Hampshire grad student who is now an accomplished Harvard professor. Indeed, Pulitzer Prize-winning Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the History Department’s 300th Anniversary University Professor and the current president of the American Historical Association, recently received the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society, becoming the first woman to do so. FM got the chance to speak with her about her latest...
...seem at times, Sarkozy's aggressive behavior - indeed, his very personality - ensures certain things will inevitably come back to bite him," notes John Kent, professor in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. "He's a bit like [former British Prime Minister] Margaret Thatcher in the way he'll stake out strong, antagonistic positions that over time undermine his credibility to calmly seek consensus solutions because the atmospheres he creates are more favorable to histrionics...