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...even providing inspiration for a new generation of would-be private bankers. A group of scholars at Zhejiang's Communist Party School, a training ground for cadres, are proposing to "establish legal private banks" along the lines of underground institutions, according to one of the professors who helped draft the proposal...
...office, which will be adjacent to the Global Research Center Harvard Business School will open within a year, will not offer any classes of its own. Instead, it will use its connections with existing universities and research programs to help students draft their own course of study...
Attorney General John Ashcroft or Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge too could catch the presidential bug. There's always the chance that a Draft Arnold movement could emerge, leading to the speedy passage of a constitutional amendment that would allow the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, to make...
...high. The vote, after all, is just the start of a tortuous process. Iraqis are choosing 275 members of a National Assembly that will name an interim President and two deputies; they, in turn, will pick a Prime Minister and the Cabinet. The assembly's main job is to draft a constitution that will set permanent rules for Iraq's democratic system and usher in another round of voting by the end of 2005. The constitution must be put to a referendum by October. If it is rejected--and divvying up powers and rights among Iraq's jostling ethnic...
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? exists in this vein of informed literary analysis for (quasi) popular consumption. Bloom wrote much of an original draft, but later discarded it and started anew. A life-threatening health crisis—when he was, as he said, “sliced up as so many people”—made him re-examine the work and the importance of literature to himself. After “being at the gates of death,” Bloom said, “I took one look at the book and simply wrote...