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...then worked in the finance sector for several years before discovering that he “hated” the job and deciding to enroll in a doctoral program at Yale, where he earned a Ph.D. in American studies...
...self-professed goal is to “lead our nation and shape our culture.” The new Strategic Intelligence Program—one of the concentrations in the school’s government department—provides a trade school approach to an increasingly important sector of the government. Classes in “Empirical Research Methods” and “Intelligence Research and Analysis” coalesce with a liberal arts core (Western history, Western literature, plus theology, or “Biblical reasoning”) to provide students with all the credentials...
...Moscow and elsewhere. Russia is a much more dangerous place to live now than before Putin came to power. In politics, he speaks of democracy but opts for authoritarianism. The result is in all but name a one-party system in which suspicion of the West and the private sector is rising. Yet little of that is reflected in the Russian media, whose key outlets transmit only the Kremlin's rosy version of reality...
...transparency, accountability and good governance in a region that has long been victimized by corruption. Her achievements are increasingly attracting global attention. She has been singled out by the World Bank for her efforts in poverty reduction and recently served on the United Nations Commission on the Private Sector and Development, helping to map out a vision of how even the poorest countries can unleash entrepreneurship and mobilize the private sector to meet their development challenges. --By MARK MALLOCH BROWN, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
...jobless rate of 9.8% is expected to reach 9.9% by the end of the year, much higher than the anticipated 8.2% E.U. average and more than double Britain's 4.8% level. But despite the drag of 2.5 million jobless adults on the economy, neither the private nor the public sector seems capable of doing anything about it. Last month's spectacular rout of conservative politicians in regional polls was widely interpreted as an expression of anger over Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's reform policies, which some see as downright counterproductive. "We'd all rather be working than scrambling...