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...coherence and determination. The new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has shown a lighter touch. He has skillfully postured as peacemaker and portrayed the Americans as warmongers. His appointments also reflect a preoccupation with p.r.: new Propaganda Chief Alexander Yakovlev became thoroughly familiar with Western ways during ten years as Ambassador to Canada, and new Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze is an ebullient backslapper...
...World Trade Organization if not an extraordinary international attempt to govern global trade by the application of commonly agreed rules? How do you see the transatlantic relationship? If I could give some advice to the White House, it would be that President Bush should be his own ambassador more. He has a combination of personality, insight and charm that is disarmingly refreshing. What about your own relationship with the Americans? You shrugged off the jibes from former U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick about your style, but it must have stung. I couldn't understand it. Why should critical policy issues...
...fighting corruption," says Keith Luse, a senior staff member on Lugar's committee. Though primarily associated with national-security issues, Wolfowitz has experience with the developing world: he was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under President Reagan and served three years as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia. Longtime associates say that he has had an interest in development for years, and sees the Bush Administration's push for democracy in the Middle East and the goal of improving living standards in the developing world as points on the same continuum. Kevin S. Kellems, a senior adviser...
...matters. The Australian public is less equivocal. Already there is strong support for Chen's claim for asylum; ordinary people can readily identify a (crazy) brave act and seem grateful for Chen's heads-up based on his allegations of an army of Chinese informants operating in their country. Ambassador Fu Ying offers the idea that Chen is an opportunist who has chosen to remain in Australia for lifestyle reasons. It's more plausible, however, to see Chen as someone taking an enormous personal risk, acting out of conscience and rejecting life and work under an authoritarian state. Whatever...
Noah Welch spoke quietly to the media this season, saying the things that a representative of the Harvard men’s hockey team should say. He assumed the role of Crimson captain and ambassador with ease, rarely at a loss for words in the face of a pointed question and never afraid to blame his team, his defense, or even himself when the situation called...