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...Roderic Lyne, a former British ambassador to Moscow, "the boom doesn't stem from oil alone. Genuine entrepreneurs have built good businesses in telecom, information technology, retail, brewing, food processing and consumer credit." A government that was broke under President Boris Yeltsin has had six budget surpluses in a row, just agreed to speed repayment of its foreign debt, and has socked away over $70 billion in a rainy-day fund. More than 6 million Russians a year now take foreign holidays. There are more than 100,000 U.S.-dollar millionaires. It's also true, as Lyne argues, that Russians...
...row caused by that paper, which argues that US foreign policy is excessively pro-Israel, was unrelated to Walt’s resignation, which had been planned before the paper’s release, Ellwood has said...
...That's absurd," the President shot back, describing it as "an absurd statement." His top aides, sitting in the fourth row of the news conference at the ornate Hofburg Palace in Vienna, responded with visible shock, clearly hoping he would elaborate. He waited until two questions later, when he was asked again about failing "so badly to convince Europeans, to win their heads and hearts and minds." This time, the President was more expansive, and softer spoken. "Look, people didn't agree with my decision on Iraq, and I understand that," he said. "For Europe, September the 11th...
Internally, the Corporation’s list of grievances was growing. Several Corporation fellows fretted over Summers’ inability to manage his seemingly never-ending row with the Faculty, the source says. Even after the no-confidence vote, tensions flared hotter last spring amid rumors that Summers had considered granting non-FAS schools the power to award PhD diplomas. At a full Faculty meeting in April of 2005, Summers denied the rumors. But the then-dean of the FAS graduate school, Peter T. Ellison, would later tell a Corporation member that Summers’ denial...
...sides of his multifaceted presidency will be lost in an effort to dramatize an unquestionably tumultuous five years. In particular, the prejudice of history may overlook his tremendous commitment to undergraduates, an aria of Summers’ tragic opera for which I was lucky enough to hold a front-row seat.You see, by some strange alignment of the stars, President Summers was my freshman year academic adviser. I’m not quite sure how or why it happened, although luck and my interest in economics played a part. Whatever the cause, for nine months I was invited into...