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...arcane new business known as corporate risk analysis, a growth industry in today's turbulent world. His firm consists of only nine advisers and researchers, a far cry from the 12,000 under his command at the State Department. The senior members are longtime Kissinger colleagues -- and proteges -- who bring their own distinction: former Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and retired General Brent Scowcroft, who was Kissinger's deputy and then successor as National Security Adviser. But what sets this firm apart from others is Kissinger, who retains his clout even though he was frozen out by the Reagan...
...bridles when rivals suggest that he trades on his name and contacts. "We are not door openers," he snaps. "Everywhere I have traveled in the past year, the heads of governments receive me. I do not ask them to do a favor for a client, and I don't bring clients in with me." The flare of anger indicates how deeply the criticism stings. He refutes the innuendo: "Some time ago a foreign company offered me $1 million, to be deposited in a Swiss bank the minute the company chairman walked through the door of a certain important finance minister...
...representatives if we hear a lot less about the council as we watch the Yard become a more hospitable place for the disabled, get better care at University Health Services and listen to music in Harvard stadium. Those are the changes Offutt said he'd work to bring about...
...College yesterday set in motion a plan to bring a speakers forum, like the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics, to the Science Center...
...prudish euphemism "teenage pregnancy" is symptomatic of the New Rhetoric. Nowhere--in speeches, in debate, in media--do we bring ourselves to say it. These are not 14-year-old women; they are pregnant girls. As Smeal put it, "the only time a woman is called a woman is when she's pregnant." Why is "pregnant girl" an unspeakable contradiction in terms for us? It belies what our culture sees as the essence of being a woman: getting pregnant...