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...TIME: The interim government introduced capital controls that it had to quickly roll back and has proposed amendments to the Foreign Business Act, both of which hurt investor confidence. SONTHI: Foreign investors worry about stability and security before they invest. It is our duty to secure this stability and security. Since Sept. 19, we have issued a clear statement to foreign investors that any agreements that have been signed or will occur in future will be [valid]. What we want is business as usual...
...Strategic HQ in Suva, "would have taken us to hell-and we would never have come back." For many observers in the outside world, most vocally Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Bainimarama's actions were an unacceptable interference in the democratic process, but the armed forces chief and now interim Prime Minister is unrepentant. "If you want to stop the coup cycle, you have to get rid of the ugly side of Fijian politics," he says. "If the Qarase government had done what we're doing now, they would still be there...
...long that will take is anyone's guess. The interim government's "road map" for elections and a return to democracy had a scheduled arrival date of 2010, but Bainimarama now fears the process may take longer. "We earmarked six months for the Electoral Commission to redraw boundaries [unchanged since the mid-'90s]," he says, but he was told by officials the day before he spoke to Time that the work will take 18 months. "So even before we have started, 12 months have been added...
Oxford-trained chemist Jeremy R. Knowles has led the Faculty as interim dean since last summer. Knowles succeeded Kirby, whom Summers forced to resign before he himself was pressured to step down. Summers had reportedly offered Faust the deanship as he looked for a replacement for Kirby...
...list of contenders for the deanship considered by Interim President Derek C. Bok last spring included former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Dean Peter T. Ellison, Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, and current GSAS Dean Theda Skocpol, according to two individuals close to the search process. Faust was also seriously considered by Bok at the time, the individuals said...