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...strong after 35 years on the job - keeps him in the international mix. Fluent in English, French and German, but not Russian - "I speak very bad Russian, but without an accent, and the Russians consider that a provocation" - he maintains a close relationship with the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. "He saw the collapse of East Germany as a tidal wave that could only be stopped by war, which he did not want," Ustinov says. "He believed democratic reform was possible within the framework of the Soviet system, which of course it wasn't." Of the current Russian leader, Vladimir...
...ALBERT EINSTEIN Twice before, TIME had widened the sphere of the POY--in 1949, when it designated Winston Churchill Man of the Half-Century, and in 1989, when it named Mikhail Gorbachev Man of the Decade. Now, at the millennium, it was time to pick the figure who towered over the entire 20th century and laid the groundwork for the 21st. The choice: "the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe," whose work transformed all the key fields in our age of science and technology. Einstein's "humanity and extraordinary brilliance made ... his name a synonym...
...speech, sponsored by Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, was the first by Gorbachev at Harvard since he spoke at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...
...Davis Center made a donation to the Gorbachev Foundation to secure the former president’s visit to Harvard, although University spokesperson Chris Ahearn said he did not know the amount...
University President Lawrence H. Summers and Davis Center Director Timothy Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies, introduced Gorbachev...