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Along with GSD colleague Eduard F. Sekler, he envisioned the VES department as a way to harness a vital element of education that was once missing from Harvard...
...Tbilisi, supporters of opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili, a U.S.educated lawyer, stormed the Georgian Parliament after weeks of demonstrations against blatantly rigged parliamentary elections. The next day President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned, and this month Saakashvili was elected President with over 90% of the vote. TIME's Paul Quinn-Judge caught up with him last week. the events of Nov. 22 seemed very organized. How long had you been planning your strategy? We'd been prepared for the past two years. It was obvious that Shevardnadze would go the oligarchic route of succession - the group around him would transfer power to someone...
...Eduard Shevardnadze FORCED TO RESIGN All-night dancing broke out in Georgia after his Nov. 24 resignation. "I have a lot to do, a lot to write...
...Caucusus nation of Georgia, the pace of change over the last few weeks has been enough to take your breath away. Just last month thousands of students were celebrating in the streets of Tbilisi, singing praises of the “bloodless revolution” that unseated Georgian President Eduard A. Shevardnadze. In a seeming about-face, yesterday the autonomous Georgian province of Adzharia announced that it would be boycotting participation in the Jan. 4 presidential election. This latest development has dealt a painful blow to the opposition movement, which had been gaining momentum the country, and has only underscored...
...President Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who helped to bring about the end of the Cold War as foreign minister under Mikhail S. Gorbachev before Georgia became independent in 1991, stepped down as president of Georgia under pressure from public protests over corrupt elections, opposition groups and the military...