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...third Secretary-General. The author's first trip to Burma came in 1974 when, just 8 years old, he returned to help bury his grandfather. That visit set off confrontations in the streets between rebellious students calling for a state funeral and the hard-line government eager to downplay the event-eerily prefiguring the violence of 1988. But Thant was also educated at Harvard and Cambridge, and has worked on U.N. peacekeeping operations in Phnom Penh and Sarajevo, so he approaches Burma's history both as the rare outsider who knows the country's family secrets and as the rare...
...received because he gave up his right to exercise them in 2003. One was for 10 million shares in January 2000, the other for 7.5 million shares. The latter grant was finalized in December 2001 but backdated to October, when the stock was 13% cheaper. "The report seeks to downplay Jobs' involvement and the extent to which he understood the accounting implications of improper dating," says Bebchuk. The report implicated "two former officers," understood to be CFO Fred Anderson and former general counsel and board secretary Nancy Heinen, who resigned last year. They have denied any wrongdoing...
...which re-incorporated Chu, junior Caitlin Cahow, and sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt into the mix this fall–was Dartmouth’s, which returned a trio of medalists and added a fourth in freshman sensation Sarah Parsons (8-17-25) to boot. Stone attempted to downplay the importance of the clash. “It’s one big game in a schedule riddled with big games,” she said.But the prospect of carrying winning momentum into the upcoming 13-day exam layoff and the fervor usually inspired by the sight of Harvard?...
...profile of Baghdad's most notorious moonlighters, officers in Iraqi security forces who draw a government paycheck while working with sectarian militias on the side. Still, the presence of U.S. forces might have deterred the kidnappers. Chiarelli has been one of the most prominent military figures to downplay the potential gains of increasing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But he acknowledges the effect of troops on the ground. "Those things that are purely sectarian, normally our mere presence, the mere presence of coalition forces, causes them to stop, at least as long as we're there," he says...
...Before leaving Washington, Paulson did his best to downplay expectations from the grandly named "Strategic Economic Dialogue" his delegation will conduct with the Chinese. There would be no big announcement after the two days of talks, Paulson told one interviewer, stressing that this was the start of a "long-term dialogue." His downbeat spin is hardly surprising: Beijing has been fending off U.S. demands for years on the issue of currency exchange rates, and also intellectual property rights (meaning pirated movies and brand-name goods). In 1996 this correspondent was told by a White House economist who had just returned...