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...Ambassador ... In Berlin, at luncheon, I met George Kennan again ... Went to lunch with Robert Oppenheimer ... [Guy Burgess] invited me to lunch at his apartment ... Lunched with Cyril (Connolly) at Whites ... Pauline de Rothschild rang and I lunched with her and Philippe at Prunier." There are also dinners with Igor Stravinsky and Edith Sit-well, breakfasts and quick bites at franchised "inns," where Spender passes lonely hours during U.S. lecture tours...
...Central Bank, capital flight quadrupled last year, to $9.4 billion. But for now, Western companies seem eager to keep on buying, and it's not hard to see why. Many are lured by the stellar performance of such companies as Eldorado, founded a decade ago by two brothers, Igor and Oleg Yakovlev. The company says its sales jumped 83% last year alone, to $2.5 billion. With numbers like that, Russia may well be a risk worth taking. --With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...Western companies seem eager to keep on buying, and it's not hard to see why. Eldorado, which was founded a decade ago by two brothers, Igor and Oleg Yakovlev, has been growing at a phenomenal rate. The company says its sales jumped by 83% last year alone, to $2.5 billion. With numbers like that unreachable in any other emerging market outside of China, Russia may well be a risk worth taking...
...given in honor of Harvard’s first professor of the History of Art, Charles Eliot Norton, who taught from 1875 to 1898. It honors “poets” in fields including music, literature, humanities, and the fine arts. Past recipients include composers Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copeland, and literary figures T. S. Eliot ’10 and Robert Frost...
...Chechen guerrillas had demonstrated their power by occupying parts of the republic's capital, Grozny, a few days earlier. The Kremlin did not see it that way. "There are no signs of terrorism," the chief spokesman of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Sergei Ignatchenko, insisted last Wednesday. Transport Minister Igor Levitin dismissed the idea that the tragedies might be linked. "They belong to different air companies, and were flying to different locations," he told journalists. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin appeared on state TV, discussing the harvest and the new school year. By Friday, the official line was unraveling...