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...embarrassing was Sarkozy's subsequent decision to cancel a post-Olympic meeting with the Dalai Lama in France. Though the French President initially said that "it's not up to China to fix my agenda", he wound up declining and sent his wife Carla Bruni and Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner instead. By the time the day of the meeting rolled around, the French press was reporting that the Dalai Lama had become so disgusted at Sarkozy's cave-in that the Tibetan leader feigned an illness to avoid having to greet the Plan B delegation. (In vain: he wound...
...basic plumbing), to the indulgent (such as wine tasting), to the cerebral (such as an introduction to Italian opera). Depending on the topic and the time of year, anywhere from three to 30 people come to take advantage of these unique learning experiences. One popular seminar is led by Bernard I. Mwangi, the night security guard at Adams, who annually teaches students about how to file tax returns. Mwangi says, “The seminars play a very big role in preparing students for real life so that they don’t come out [of Harvard] and become bewildered...
...Question #55. Have you paid all taxes and Social Security obligations applicable to the employment of [occasional or regular domestic help]? Otherwise known as the Zoe Baird Memorial Gotcha! Question, after Bill Clinton's unsuccessful nominee for Attorney General. Baird's Nannygate - and a similar dustup involving Bernard Kerik, George W. Bush's nominee for Homeland Security Secretary in 2004 - are pretty obviously the inspirations for this clause, as both scandals severely muddled the respective Presidents' transition plans. Nevertheless, the verdict on this question is mixed. "I don't want somebody disqualified who can help solve the economic problem because...
There is no quick military solution. With 17,000 troops on the ground, the U.N. force may be the largest the world organization is currently fielding but those peacekeepers have not been able to fulfill even their limited mandate of protecting civilians. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, has called for the European Union to send reinforcements. This might serve as good out-of-theater training exercise for the European troops but an extra 2,000 boots on the ground - even if the 27-member body could agree on the mission - would do little to address the root causes...
...here he felt like he was part of the Hillel family, as opposed to the president of the most esteemed university in the world.” The floor at yesterday’s event was meant to be opened to all questions in what Hillel Director Bernard Steinberg termed “a completely open forum.” But students wasted no time narrowing the subject of their inquiries to the impending presidential election and the recent economic crisis, with one Hillel undergraduate questioning Summers on what the effects of an economic recession would be on the American...