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...almost the past decade, Gates had been working on his Ph.D. at the University of London. In the latter stages of the last academic year, Gates said he realized that “the clock [was] running out” and that he would need “some concentrated time” to devote his full attention to his degree...
...Thrishantha Nanayakkara was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2008-2009, co-sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Human Rights. He is on the faculty of King’s College, London...
...sign of a rift between Libya and the West. "This is a significant country with an unusual leader, who uses his wealth to conjure up influence in places like Africa," says Richard Dalton, who was Britian's ambassador to Libya until 2002 and is now a fellow at the London think tank Chatham House. For the West, he says, Gaddafi is "much better to work with than to shun. He's shown himself reliable on the important issues...
...been a smart investment that has paid off handsomely. About 45 Western oil companies now operate in Libya, investing billions each year in exploration and maintenance. "Quite a bit of damage occurred under sanctions because the oil reservoirs were not observed for many, many years," says Thamir Uqaili, a London-based independent oil consultant who spent years working in Libya. "They have caught up now in certain places...
...Timothy Geithner, then the president of the New York Fed. "Now, that was AIG week," he says, "but it was also breaking the buck on [money-market firm] First Reserve week, and it was the week when Lehman's bankruptcy caused huge problems in the prime brokerage system in London. There were a million things that I would have been talking to Geithner or [Paulson] about...