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...take charge of Merrill Lynch and attempt to rescue the brokerage firm from the biggest crisis in its 93-year history. In interviews with The Crimson, Thain’s former Business School classmates remembered his days across the Charles, where he attended school along with his Merrill Lynch predecessor E. Stanley O’Neal, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, and eBay CEO Margaret C. Whitman. James J. Burke Jr., a 1979 graduate of the Business School, said that Thain’s skills were well suited to maneuver Merrill Lynch out of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that...
...Reagan’s National Security Council, first became interested in the Soviet Union during World War II. His family fled Poland following the Nazi/Soviet invasion of September 1939. Pipes ended up in the United States, where he learned Russian as a member of the U.S. Air Corps, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force. “Everyone was interested in Russia largely because of World War II. Following the war, the study of Russia was a wide-open, exciting field and there were few American experts at the time,” Pipes said in an interview with...
...potential national leader - or map out what kind of P.M. he would be.
predecessor John Anderson's national profile and charm, but has proved a steady No. 2 to Howard despite an uncertain performance during the scandal over wheat-export bribes to Saddam's Iraq. Key National issues such as the drought and water will play a large role in this poll...
...British government isn't particularly happy with its national treasure either. In 2003 it fell out with the BBC over its coverage of the Iraq war. The current Prime Minister Gordon Brown seems to share his predecessor's lack of enthusiasm. At a September press conference Brown gestured to a journalist that it was his turn at the microphone. As the journalist identified himself, Brown motioned him to stop. The event had barely begun, and the PM had already answered questions from four BBC correspondents. Now here was a fifth. Brown didn't care that each journalist represented different...
...appreciate the enlightened project that was his Empire’s burden: “The task we have set ourselves is to civilize a great mass of human beings who are in a very primitive moral and social state.” About a decade earlier, his predecessor Philip Mitchell had outlined this duty in starker terms still: “The African has the choice of remaining a savage or of adopting our civilization, culture, religion and language.” (Incidentally, both were eventually knighted.) Blinded by an unshakable conviction in their own tradition?...