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President Neil L. Rudenstine introduced the annual Albert H. Gordon '23 Lecture on Finance and Public Policy with a dig at Bush's alma matter, Yale...
...refused to answer any questions about how close they were, Hashimoto last November admitted that the woman had interpreted for him and that he had written her and bought her a meal. Discreet marital infidelity among politicians rarely prompts much notice in Japan; involvement with a spy is another matter. One of the chief allegations is that the woman influenced a decision in 1989 by then health minister Hashimoto to push for a large aid package for a Chinese hospital, at a time after the Tiananmen massacre when few countries were willing to deal with China...
...military academy in Virginia for high school, and when his father died he dropped out of the University of Arizona to join the family department-store business. Goldwater was weaned on a conservatism that valued the abilities of the individual, not one's religion, race or sexual orientation. No matter what...
...When hunting for business-travel bargains, remember that all Asian countries are not suffering equally. In Japan, where inbound business travel went up 7.6% last year between January and November, air fares and hotel rates won't show the dramatic declines seen in, say, Malaysia and Indonesia. And no matter how savvy, individual travelers or companies aren't always equipped to negotiate the best deals. "I was attending a conference in Bangkok, and when we called this hotel, we were charged $85 a night," says Helen Peterson, spokeswoman for the Asia division of the Pacific Asia Travel Association, a travel...
...Voodoo Daddy, another brisk-selling swing act, says his classmates at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood would play Sinatra records "nonstop." That was 10 years ago. Frank is still his hero. Says Morris: "Musicians have always loved Sinatra and will always love him." Duplicating him, though, is another matter...