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...What's Next for China Re Simon Elegant's article on beijing after the Olympics: It was indeed a mission accomplished [Sept. 8]. When I visited the capital just last April, I saw people beginning to embrace a modern civilization while maintaining their roots in traditional culture. Though others may criticize China's stand on Tibet and Sudan, we can clearly see that the awakened dragon is unfazed by such clamor - both its historical perspective and vision for the future are long and lasting. As we saw during the opening ceremonies, China is willing to share its traditions and accept...
...Professor of economics Kenneth S. Rogoff echoed the sentiments he expressed at an April panel discussion at Harvard in which he said the ongoing economic crisis “looks like a really...
...Light] was sought out by the firm after a careful review by senior management of dozens of prospects,” said John A. Ford, a senior vice president at Blackstone. The Ohio native was selected to be the Business School’s dean in April 2006 by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers. This followed an eight-month stint as interim dean of the Business School. Light has taken on a number of different roles during his time in Cambridge, including chairman of the finance unit and director of faculty planning. He is also a currently a director...
...Moseley also differed over whether non-pilots should be able to operate weapons-carrying drones. Like other previous Air Force leaders, Moseley argued that only a trained pilot had the mental and moral heft to deliver bombs and missiles, or could avoid mid-air collisions with other aircraft. Last April, Gates complained that while running the CIA in 1992 he discovered "the Air Force would not co-fund with CIA a vehicle without a pilot." That stubborn thinking, he suggested, makes no sense as drones have flooded the skies over Afghanistan and Iraq and stretched the Air Force's pilot...
...course, the fact that the cool kids' party happened to be taking place in Iraq explains a lot of the distance between the two current leaders: upon taking office in April 2004, Zapatero immediately pulled Spanish troops out of "the alliance of the willing." Which is one of the ironies of this situation - that Spain can so strongly support a foreign policy opposed to the Bush doctrine (whatever that is), while so strongly hoping for a show of respect from Washington. On Thursday, Spanish newspaper ABC's regret was palpable when it lamented that "the coldness between the governments...