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Presidential Interviews: Harvard, almamater to six United States presidents, sought tofurther the special relationship in July whenK-School professor Marvin Kalb invited eachpresidential hopeful for a televised one-on-oneinterview to be conducted before an audience inthe Arco Forum. Kalb, the Murrow Professor ofPress and Public Policy and former diplomaticcorrespondent for NBC, said that National PublicRadio and Public Television Stations had agreed tocarry the hour-long interviews...
Several of the five speakers in the ARCO Forum entitled "Personal Perspectives on Politics" described themselves as "accidental politicians," people who did not expect to work in government...
...Kobayashi, owner of Japan's multibillion-dollar Shuwa real estate empire: "Bond buyers are holding paper, but I have buildings and land. That's the future." Kobayashi's son Takashi, head of the family firm's U.S. subsidiary, controls 26 U.S. buildings worth some $2 billion. Among them: the ARCO Plaza in Los Angeles (bought for $620 million last September) and the ABC network headquarters in Manhattan ($175 million in October). Says the senior Kobayashi: "America is where greatness...
...that end, Thornburgh is planning a debate inthe Arco Forum between the candidates of bothparties, as well as a series of public events thatwill bring together scholars and experts todiscuss issues of the coming campaign, such aswelfare reform, the deficit, Star Wars andeconomic competitiveness. "I hope to promote somemeaningful discussion, which you'll see isn'talways the case as you saw in the Democraticdebate [last week]," he says...
...twelve months, says resolutely, "We have to be enthusiastic." Indeed, the state's savings account, the Permanent Fund, continues to grow and now tops $8.1 billion. That is a healthy reserve, even if the principal cannot be tapped to help solve the current crisis. Harold Heinze, the president of Arco Alaska, looks at the modest rebound in the world price of oil and says, "It feels good to have a mild wind at your back after walking into a gale...