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...letter comes as Secretary of State James A. Baker III is scheduled to meet with his Iraqi counterpart Tariq Aziz in Geneva today, a meeting which Bush described as a "chance, perhaps a final chance" to convince Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait...
...toughest jobs was getting the U.S. to believe that he and Gorbachev meant what they said. A breakthrough occurred at a private dinner in May 1989 when Shevardnadze convinced his American counterpart, James Baker, that Moscow was determined to deal with the weaknesses of its socialist system and to build a peaceful international environment that would allow it to focus on its internal ailments...
Flaherty has also said that he has an effective rapport with his counterpart across the hall, Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston), who was reportedly on less than friendly terms with Keverian last year in the toughest days of the state's budget crisis...
...together his own ice show nouveau: a romantic and theatrical evening with a minimum of props and kitsch and a maximum of athletic daring. Along the way came a TV special for ABC and another for Home Box Office that won three Emmy Awards, both starring his title-winning counterpart, Katarina Witt of what was then East Germany. The TV shows taught Boitano that he and Witt, although trained since early childhood as solo skaters, could enjoy the different discipline of working as a pair and, more important, had a chemistry that satisfied audiences. Says Witt: "We both like...
Approximately 66 percent of the foreign students in the Class of 1994 are receiving financial aid, a figure nearly identical to that of enrolled U.S. citizens, and the average scholarship awarded to a foreign student is greater than that of his or her American counterpart...