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Last April, when many students and faculty members erupted in dismay over the announcement that former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin L. Powell would be the Commencement speaker, Green noted that he had had another choice in mind...
...they graduated from one of America's military academies. For generations the ring signified that the wearer was a cut above. No longer: the ring knockers are losing their grip on the armed forces. When Admiral Jeremy Boorda becomes chief of naval operations this month, five of the six Joint Chiefs of Staff will be nonacademy men who have come up through the enlisted ranks or from officer- training programs...
...four Russians were interested in a joint venture with their guest of honor, a foreign businessman, but had little desire to meet anywhere they could be seen by KGB types. (Russians still call the secret police the KGB, even though the domestic side of the agency has been renamed the Federal Counterintelligence Service.) Nor could they afford to be spotted by anyone from the vast, amorphous gang of criminals and hustlers that make up the Russian mafia. Only a few months ago, one of the Russians explained apologetically, the hotel manager had been killed because he failed to show...
...thriller. Buyers, accompanied by bodyguards carrying suitcases of cash and by their own scientific experts for testing the goods, fill hotels in Baltic ports, where Russian smugglers congregate. The sellers are most likely to be mafia-connected hustlers or former KGB agents -- some of whom have even set up joint ventures with former CIA agents to smuggle strategic materials. The trade is so brisk that Estonia has emerged as one of the world's leading exporters of rare metals, even though it produces none...
...this context, Greenspan's close relationship with the Clinton Administration, which burst into the spotlight with his now famous appearance beside Hillary Rodham Clinton at the President's first address to a joint session of Congress in February 1993, has turned out to be useful. "Both sides need each other," says Felix Rohatyn, a partner at the investment firm Lazard Freres. "The Administration benefits from the reflected cachet of a conservative Republican like Greenspan, whose job is made easier by the deficit-reduction policies and fiscal prudence that Clinton has so far demonstrated." Besides the saxophone, both men have...