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Thus, between the lines, even some of the blandest passages of the joint statement augur not imminent accord but protracted discord, and not just between Moscow and Washington but within the Administration as well. Resolving those disputes will take time, probably a long time, and that may be where the summit turns out to have helped most. As Georgi Arbatov, the Soviet Union's best-known Americanologist, put it, "The meeting has improved the possibility that there might be real breakthroughs achieved later...
Back in 1994, when Houghton replaced Charles P. Slichter ’45, a beloved physicist and chemist at the University of Illinois, the swap of a businessman for an academic seemed to augur a marked corporatization of the Corporation. But Summers was taking the board in a slightly more specific direction. His appointees were pure economists by training, men most likely to concur with his empirical approach to university governance. And perhaps more importantly, the three economists—Summers, Rubin, and Reischauer, stewards of the golden era of the Clinton economy—were all pals. It would...
...extended direct quotation that is among the book’s many illuminating moments, Sandel cautions Friedman: “A flat, frictionless world is a mixed blessing. It may, as you suggest, be good for global business. Or it may, as Marx believed, augur well for a proletarian revolution. But it may also pose a threat to the distinctive places and communities that give us our bearings, that locate us in the world. … Some of these inefficiencies are institutions, habits, cultures, and traditions that people cherish precisely because they reflect nonmarket values like social cohesion, religious...
...newly formed government there. And the Saudi government has even raised the possibility of granting women the right to vote in the next elections. Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the University of Maryland at College Park, thinks the Grand Mufti's statement on marriage could augur a trend. "If you start mobilizing the quiet majority by putting this on the agenda," he says, "society starts to change." --By Julie Rawe. Reported by Nadia Mustafa, Scott MacLeod and Amany Radwan
...Arryx is one of 29 Technology Pioneers chosen this year by the World Economic Forum, the nonprofit organization of global political and business leaders best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Selected from among 114 nominees by a panel of technology experts, the Pioneers' biotech developments augur advances that will help people live longer, healthier, more productive lives. Pioneers like Arryx; Astex, a biotech firm in Cambridge, England; Raven Biotechnologies and Xencor, both in California; and Memory Pharmaceuticals of Montvale, New Jersey, are targeting cancer, Alzheimer's, nutrition, animal husbandry - you name it. Their innovations are a testimony...