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...Economic Czar. Says Fukuda: "The economy has suffered deep wounds that will take at least three years to cure." Even after that, in his mind, going back to the old era of hell-for-leather growth would only start "an endless cycle of inflation and deflation." His long-run goal is for the Japanese economy to expand at about a 5% annual rate-only half the average post-World War II pace...
Fukuda seems to have the clout to put his policies through, and lately he has become something of an economic czar. A veteran financial expert and leader of one of the Liberal Democratic Party's strongest factions, he has served several terms as Finance Minister; he was called on to resume that post by former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka -with whom Fukuda, to put it mildly, did not get along-when the oil crisis broke in late 1973. When financial scandals forced Tanaka to step down last December, the post of Prime Minister fell to the little-known Takeo...
Signs of the trend include increased emphasis on the Kennedy School of Government's Public Policy program--a program labeled Bok's top fund-raising priority by fund-raising czar Chase N. Peterson '54, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Other indications are promoted interest in the Nieman Fellows program and in the Business School management programs...
...impressed by the author's empathetic handling of hemophilia. The disease, characterized by uncontrolled bleeding, threatened the life of the young Czarevitch, made the lives of his father and mother into a nightmare, and helped lead to the fall of the Romanov family. By dealing with the Czar and Czarina as distraught parents, the book transformed them from foolish pawns of history into figures of personal tragedy...
...Yuri Vladimirov. An extraordinarily lithe actor with a frazzled mane and long simian arms, Vladimirov in his mad scenes looked oddly like a bemused orangutan who had suddenly been set loose from a zoo. That effect was heightened in the ballet's unintentionally ludicrous climax, when the paranoid Czar, hopelessly entangled among bell ropes, dangles above a crowd of foot-stomping peasants...