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...price talks. Spokesman Adam Ereli allowed only that the dispute "is a question of energy supply that we and the Europeans are all following closely." Indeed, Putin seems eager to secure Western political influence at high levels: last month, he persuaded former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to become chairman of a company building a new gas pipeline from Russia to Western Europe that will bypass Ukraine by going under the Baltic Sea. Putin also offered a top job at a Russian state-owned oil company to former U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans; Evans declined the position...
...they had sworn they would never do. Although as a nonprofit they are forbidden to lobby for legislation, they are allowed to "educate." They opened an office in Washington and began meeting with politicians all over the world, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder, French President Jacques Chirac and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
...Gateses say their smartest investment yet has been GAVI. This year, when five European nations backed them up with an unprecedented $4 billion over 10 years to fund GAVI's work, it was all about leverage. At Davos, Bill Gates and Bono had tag-team meetings with Blair, Schrder and other leaders, using the example of one as peer pressure for the other. Bill remembers talking to Bono between meetings and telling him he wasn't sure Schrder would come around. Bono was undeterred. "I tend to be a little more realistic," Bill says. "He's always saying...
After leaving office in November, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder wasted no time sprucing up his résumé. He took a job as consultant with Swiss publishers Ringier in November; he even attended a rural language school in Wales to brush up on his English. Russian, though, might have been a better choice. Only weeks after brokering, as Chancellor, a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a gas pipeline linking the two countries, Schröder earlier this month stepped into the role of project chairman. Set to start piping gas into Europe...
...Meredith Morton, a prissy and uptight executive, meeting her boyfriend Everett Stone’s (Dermot Mulroney) parents for the first time, in “The Family Stone” Parker channels a woman more Bree Van Der Camp (of “Desperate Housewives”) than Carrie Bradshaw...