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...pleasant surprise as EPA chief, and Bush had sometimes belied expectations, besting the bright green Al Gore during the campaign with his call for mandatory caps on power-plant emissions. What's more, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill--former Alcoa chairman--turned out to be a Kyoto backer, drafting a memo for the new President arguing that the only problem with the pact was that it didn't go far enough...
...Probably because it is based in Moscow. Nurulla Latypov is the only one in the company with any knowledge of business, and he learned it at a communist-run school. The company (at www.virtusphere.com) has won 15 prizes at international shows, but it has yet to find a backer. Nurahmed, better known as Ray, says: "I am a scientist, not a businessman...
...first collection for Dior stuck closely to the house's legacy - and was a smash success. "Saint Laurent has saved France!" read the papers the following day. But with his next collections he strayed further from the Dior traditions, to the consternation of many - especially the house's backer Marcel Boussac. When Saint Laurent was called up for military service, the influential press baron let him go. But the army was no place for a man with Saint Laurent's sensibilities. He ended up in a mental hospital, kept under heavy sedation. Finally, his lover Pierre Bergé secured...
...Does the fact that President-elect Bush's foreign policy advisers signaled during the campaign that he'd pull U.S. troops out of the Balkans create an urgency for the Albanian separatists to act? After all, the U.S. has been the most enthusiastic backer in NATO of their demand for Kosovo's independence, which is opposed by most European NATO members...
...know"), and every other technical fine point with which he could stump Brace for Sauls' amusement. "Your opinion as a political science major is that rubber gets harder?" Beck scoffed, the scarcasm dripping. Brace had come in looking like a scientist, and left sounding like a Gore backer who couldn't prove a word he said...