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...allegations of Gazprom being Russia's "pipeline troops," poised to accomplish with energy what the U.S.S.R. used to do with tanks. "There is no politics in our relations with other countries. Just business," he says. And business is booming. Russia is energy rich. Its oil and gas reserves account for more than 20% of its $1 trillion economy...
...returns reveal new information about former President Lawrence H. Summers’ severance package, which included a $1 million deferred-interest loan for the purchase of a home.The former president drew a $580,115 salary in fiscal year 2006, his last year in office. With expense-account payments, allowances, and benefits, Summers’ compensation summed to $714,005, according to filings released yesterday.Summers’ 2006 salary rose 3.1 percent from the previous year. His 2005 compensation was the second-lowest among Ivy League presidents, according to a database maintained by the Chronicle of Higher Education.The $1 million...
...that sounds like a reference to 2000, so be it. But some will be disappointed to learn that Gore's book does not contain his long-suppressed account of that contentious year. He has never opened up publicly about the Florida debacle, and even in private he avoids the topic. Friends say he thinks the Supreme Court basically stole the election, but he won't say it. He has never indulged in postmortems-not even in the immediate aftermath. His psychological survival depended on looking ahead. "It was all about what's next," says his friend Reed Hundt...
...Grosz chaired a task force focused on increasing the representation of women across the science and engineering fields in the wake of widespread criticism of comments made by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers. In a speech to an economics conference, Summers suggested that biological differences might partially account for the underrepresentation of females in the top tiers of those fields...
...Grosz chaired a task force focused on increasing the representation of women across the science and engineering fields in the wake of widespread criticism of comments made by former University President Lawrence H. Summers. In a speech to an economics conference, Summers suggested that biological differences might partially account for the underrepresentation of females in the top tiers of those fields...