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...ambiguous legacy of its last Socialist President. Mitterrand's image dominated a Parisian courtroom last week as it finished taking testimony about a vast wiretapping scheme driven in part by Mitterrand's personal obsessions. His illness, first diagnosed in 1981, the year he took power, resurfaces in lurid detail this week in a book - written by his personal doctor, Claude Gubler - originally banned by a French court in 1996 for breaching the President's medical privacy. His foreign policy, often considered driven by small-minded jealousies, is presented in a far more positive light by several historical works...
...says Gordon Flake, a North Korea analyst at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. The new UF6 evidence was apparently strong enough to help the two NSC aides, Michael Green and William Tobey, win an audience with Chinese President Hu Jintao two weeks ago. U.S. officials would not detail Hu's reaction to the briefing, but one told TIME, "It made an impression...
Offering maps and driving directions with clarity, detail and style, Google Maps maps.google.com poses a threat to MapQuest. --By Wilson Rothman
...arrival in New York was marked by angry encounters with over 1,500 anti-Nazi demonstrators. In Cambridge, anxious state troopers assigned him a security detail for the course of reunion week. Nevertheless, Putzi insisted on attending several receptions at the homes of prominent alumni, including a tea party at Conant’s residence. The president later wrote in his autobiography that his response to Hanfstaengl was “cold; I did not return the greetings...
...designed to be more supportive in assisting new, young public service groups and get them the assistance they need to make their organizations effective,” said Meg Brooks Swift ’93, Director of the Public Service Network. This proposal will be discussed in further detail in a sub-committee...