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Take heed, members of the council, of what your Russian counterparts learned the hard way: "camaraderie" cannot be created from above, but rather bubbles up from below through meaningful dialogue and realization of common ends. Spirit Week may momentarily amuse the proletariat. But our lovable student Politburo should get moving on issues of real significance to students, lest the masses, though fragmented and discontented as they may be, decide to organize a coup...
...Cuba. The SmithKline deal led to long and apparently educational meetings between U.S. executives and Cuban officials such as Concepcion Campa, 48. Campa is director of the state-run Finlay Institute, the Havana bio-research facility at which she created the meningitis vaccine. But she's also a communist Politburo member, and she got a crash course in capitalist haggling during the negotiations, as well as a closer, less ideological understanding of Americans. "It was hard to make sense of all those Anglo-Saxon contract clauses," she told TIME. "But we appreciated each other's forms of thinking better...
...system was designed to get families to betray one another," Kramer said. "Stalin was actually removed from the Politburo [the ruling body of the central committee of the Communist party] before he died...
...Ancient Athens, mortals could only gaze up in wonder to the clouds atop Mount Olympus, where the whims of the gods determined their lives. For Soviet Russians, the same mystery surrounded the Politburo, where secret meetings shaped their lives. Harvard...
Their success has turned them into a kind of free-market Politburo on economic matters. Clinton relies on the men to a level that drives other Cabinet members nuts. One weekend this summer, when both Summers and Rubin were on vacation, Clinton began to panic about Russia's weakness. "Where's Bob?" the President kept asking nervously in a morning meeting. Turning to White House staff members, he told them to pull together a plan. The team spent a weekend crashing a strategy, only to be shut out again when Rubin arrived back in town. An aide to Secretary...