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...take place next Monday, when Rice and other foreign ministers and international officials gather in London for a donors? conference on Afghanistan. Meanwhile, she telephoned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livini and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Then, speaking via videoconference to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Rice offered a muted response, suggesting that the election results demonstrated popular disaffection with Fatah but were not necessarily an endorsement of militancy...
...president warns on global imbalances," by Chris Giles in The Financial Times "Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University and former US Treasury secretary, has warned that there is a dangerous degree of complacency about global economic imbalances. Commenting on the general lack of concern at the World Economic Forum about the soaring US trade, Mr Summers recalled the sense of calm that existed before the Mexcian crisis in 1994 and the bursting of the technology bubble in 2000. 'The time of greatest serenity was also the time of greatest risk...
...Tell It to the Losers," Floyd Norris at NYTimes.com [Subscription required] "Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University and a co-chairman of the World Economic Forum, asserts that globalization will not be derailed. 'The tide of history continues to move toward more market organization,' he told me. But, he added, 'For this to work out well, there must be more attention to local disintegration even as we work toward global integration...
...budget and current account deficits are very important contributors to an unbalanced global economy, while the U.S. deficit has been a source of demand that has propelled the global economy forward for some years now,' said Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University and co-chairman of the 2006 forum meeting...
...Tick Tock," by David Warsh at Economic Principals "Should Harvard University president Lawrence Summers travel this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as he usually does, he'll find that the hottest item in the snowy little Alpine village is the international edition of Institutional Investor — the one with the cover story, 'How Harvard Lost Russia: The inside story of what happened when the enormous power and resources of the United States government were put in the wrong hands.'" [Read the Institutional Investor story here...