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...power, and so do its most significant members. Just as the wise men - Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson and the like - who remade international institutions at the end of World War II would not have been able to do what they did without the assistance of Arthur Vandenberg, the powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, so reform of the financial system today cannot bypass Representative Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee...
...This would have been a good occasion to say sorry.' ANDRZEJ HALICKI, chairman of the Polish parliament's foreign-affairs committee, on the speech by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) marking the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. Putin drew praise for his conciliatory tone, but he stopped short of apologizing for Russia's occupation of Poland...
Finn M.W. Caspersen, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a prolific philanthropist who raised and donated huge sums to the Law School, died last week of an apparently self-inflicted gun-shot wound. Caspersen, the former Chairman of the Beneficial Corporation, a consumer finance corporation, donated over $30 million to the Law School and served as the chairman of the successful capital campaign which ended last year and raised $476 million, the most successful fund-raising campaign in the history of legal education. Caspersen’s death comes at a time when his fund-raising abilities may have...
...says. This is particularly true, he adds, when "we look at investing as an extension of our lives and values." He notes that RSF Social Finance, which invests in enterprises committed to improving society and the environment and where he served as President and CEO and is now Chairman of the Board, realized a steady 3%-4% average over 25 years and has continued to grow despite the current downturn...
...didn't take long the next day for the reality to set in that not much about the game had really changed. "Every day," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, who is leading bipartisan talks, said with a sigh, "we get a little closer. And I mean it." (See 10 players in health-care reform...