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...would never accept a replacement for their cherished National Health Service, which promises care free at the point of use, so she settled for creating an internal market within the NHS that was supposed to make it more efficient. Internationally, it was the Iron Lady who first recognized that Mikhail Gorbachev was a "man we can do business with," an insight that paved the way for the bloodless end of the Cold War. Financially (listen up, world leaders), she was remarkably circumspect in the way she went about privatizing state-owned businesses, first appointing soul mates to head...
...failing to take measures against human trafficking, the Iraqi government has been quietly working on a draft law to tackle the scourge. Baghdad was prodded into action late last year, after the release of the U.S. State Department's "Trafficking in Persons Report," according to Human Rights Minister Wijdan Mikhail Salim. "Let's say it was a tough report about the situation in Iraq, and in so many cases it was right," she says...
...United Nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fulfilling a campaign promise, traveled to Korea as President-Elect in December 1952 - the Korean War ended seven months later. And, of course, Ronald Reagan helped bring the Cold War to a close when he gave his 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall, challenging Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall...
...different from Putin: A former lawyer, the current president has spoken publicly and frequently about judicial reform to ensure fairness and end what he has referred to as "legal nihilism." Medvedev's promises of reform, if honored, could make a substantial difference to the fate of imprisoned oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky...
...history. Many of the cases from Russia that come before the ECHR are small or are duplicate complaints submitted by different plaintiffs. But in January, the ECHR announced a doozy: it said oil giant Yukos, which was effectively shut down by Moscow in 2006, three years after its boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was thrown into prison on charges of fraud and tax evasion, could proceed with a lawsuit seeking $34 billion in damages against the Russian government. It is the largest claim the ECHR has agreed to consider and the first ever involving a corporation. The financial and political fallout from...