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...hungry is Bush? In late April, when former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who had suggested to the President's father that Dubya's foreign policy was off course, stopped at the White House to meet with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, the President dropped by for two minutes--and stayed for 20, pumping Gorby for advice. Bush has also heard from another old hand, the one whom Americans hope he consults but whom White House image-mongers are most sensitive about...
...more and more businesses have shrugged off borders, so too have the institutions that train corporate executives. In a survey of 55 deans of top business schools conducted by Rice University this spring, globalization tied with technology and entrepreneurship as the No. 1 priorities for improvement. Aspiring global execs are also getting trained in other ways, whether through online M.B.A. programs now attracting students across 24 time zones, or at the summer seminars popular among Americans at the highly regarded Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) business school in Fontainebleau, France. INSEAD is collaborating with the Wharton School...
...certain names came to mind. Within the University, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin and Business School Dean Kim B. Clark ’74 were oft-mentioned. Beyond the gates, former Stanford Provost Condoleezza “Condi” Rice, the Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan, Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus, and a little-known—at least in the academic world—Treasury Secretary named Lawrence H. Summers were considered viable options...
Bollinger got to stay on the list. So did Clark, Fineberg, Summers, Sullivan. Others did not. Condi Rice was too busy getting George W. Bush elected president to deal with the Harvard presidency. Richard Klausner, director of the National Center Institute, just did not seem to have “it.” Varmus, it turned out, was not interested...
...hurdles competition began with three semifinal heats on Wednesday, with Taylor winning the first heat in 56.64 seconds. Rice freshman Allison Beckford’s time of 56.39 seconds in the third heat was the best of the semifinals...