Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachevalso delivered a speech at the school and answeredquestions from the audience of students...
WHENEVER HE WANTS TO GAMBLE ON A FEW HOT stock tips, Mikhail Gorbachev can go to the source. Last week, when he visited the seat of American capitalism, employees of the New York Stock Exchange cheered lustily and gave him a gold- plated member badge. As he was feted in the boardroom, Gorby told members, "I'd like very much for you to establish good links with the Russian exchanges. I'll always remember there are bulls as well as bears," he added, "because we know a lot about bears...
NOTHING ABOUT MIKHAIL GORBAchev's triumphal two-week tour of the U.S. $ suggested that he was a politician removed from power. Americans, who still see the last President of the Soviet Union as the man most responsible for ending the cold war, received him with standing ovations from Stanford University to the New York Stock Exchange to Capitol Hill. Though he resigned his office more than four months ago, he has lost neither the aura nor the trappings of a major political figure...
...Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi has given the Palestinians a new face...
...PERFECT COINCIDENCE OF NEED AND ability: the Palestinians and Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi. That's why it is her face you see, her voice you hear speaking for her people, brilliantly recasting their cause as a cry for human justice. No longer can the world sum up -- and dismiss -- the Palestinians in the portrait of a stubble-bearded man wrapped in a kaffiyeh. This woman looks civilized, unthreatening, someone you'd like to invite to dinner, and she speaks with a compelling eloquence. With exquisite timing or luck or preternatural planning, she was there, this medieval-literature scholar, devoted mother, Christian...