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...Relations between U.S. Presidents and Canadian Prime Ministers have not always been so cordial. Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney, both of Irish descent, became fast friends who enjoyed fishing together and singing duets. The closeness of their friendship was a significant factor in the eventual signing of NAFTA. But Lester Pearson, Prime Minister in the '60s, delivered a scathing antiwar speech in Washington at the height of the Vietnam War. The next day at the White House, Lyndon Johnson issued a stern reprimand: "You peed on my rug!" Relations between the two never recovered. And Richard Nixon once famously called...
...Blackstone with former Lehman chief executive Peter G. Peterson in 1985 with a $400,000 balance sheet. As of June 30 of this year, Blackstone had a total of $119.4 billion of assets under management. Light will accompany Richard Jenrette, the founder of investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada; and William Parrett, the chief executive of the professional services firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as one of four independent directors on the board. —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused," he says. He also makes a point of hobnobbing with the right people. Nearly two years ago, Munk formed a blue-chip advisory board at Barrick whose members include former U.S. President George Bush and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, as well as former Bundesbank chairman Karl Otto Pohl...
...elected in January, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on the verge of winning a third term, and French President Francois Mitterrand has recouped his popularity. But Prime Ministers Amintore Fanfani of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan are due to step down soon, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is in severe political trouble at home. No wonder that their deliberations in a 17th century monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, hard by the Grand Canal, came to be christened the "Bland Canal" summit...
...Canadian citizen wrote to the Prime Minister thoughtful letters with gifts twice a month, month after month, and there was no response," Martel says, insisting that his letters (posted on his website) are not petty or partisan. He notes that previous Conservative governments, including that of Brian Mulroney, have supported the arts. But what Martel and Harper each think is "unacceptable" may be very different. Harper, who once decided to boycott the entire parliamentary press gallery after a standoff over who got to ask what questions when, seems quite capable of ignoring Martel and his books for a very long...