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...timing of his latest warning gave the Soviets an opening to charge that the U.S. plans to abrogate the only fully ratified arms treaty between the superpowers. Sure enough, the Soviets' Georgi Arbatov promptly stated that the letter proved Reagan was "not serious" about the summit. The flap soon subsided, however, and its eventual role at the summit was minimal...
DeLong and other friends of Summers speculate that the University president might be persuaded to leave Cambridge behind if he were offered the Fed chairmanship. But the ironic consequence of this year’s flap over Summers’ leadership is that—by dashing his own Fed prospects—Summers might have lengthened his tenure at Harvard...
...softening Harvard’s stance on it and I feel like the answer I got was a characteristically dismissive and official kind of thing,” LaFlamme said, referring to a study break question and answer session in Mather House. “But the flap about his comments at the conference in January has made Summers and his emissaries more receptive to dialogue and brought more legitimate conversations then in the beginning of this administration...
...Thomas now openly advertises gay bed-and-breakfasts and gay weddings. In Puerto Rico, both major candidates in last year's gubernatorial race pledged to respect gay rights. And after the March cruise-ship incident, Nevis Tourism Minister Malcolm Guishard took pains to try to defuse anger over the flap, calling it an "unfortunate but isolated" event and stressing that his island "welcomes any sexual orientation." -By Tim Padgett
...current flap start? Japanese leaders have made private pilgrimages to Yasukuni without causing a fuss, but in 1985, Yasuhiro Nakasone became the first Prime Minister to visit the shrine in an official capacity, prompting outcry from other Asian nations. his successors avoided official visits for the next 16 years, until Koizumi came to power promising to resume them?which he has done, visiting the shrine each year since 2001. China, along with other Asian countries invaded during World War II, insists that for Japan's leader to visit a shrine where the war's masterminds are worshipped as gods...