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...called a snap election for the fall - which he looks likely to lose. In France, President Jacques Chirac is foundering after his country's voters rejected the European Constitution; in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair recently saw his parliamentary majority sharply reduced; and in recessionary Italy, Premier Silvio Berlusconi is struggling to cling to power. Meanwhile, Commission President José Manuel Barroso is still new in the job. Small wonder that last week's summit meeting involved little more than pruning the European agenda, and squabbling over what remains. Expansion to include Turkey? Don't hold your breath. Reform...
...Greenberg's clout that after 15 years of contentious negotiations to allow China into the World Trade Organization in 2001, U.S. officials handed off the final sticking point--access to the insurance markets--to...Greenberg. After some tough meetings, he put his demands in a terse letter to Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who after reading them angrily summoned one of his top trade representatives and, according to that official, declared, "I would never, never see this...
...this time around weren’t paying attention before March, when the Crimson made its greatest strides on the national level in years. Under previous coach Mark Mazzoleni, Harvard’s seniors had experienced their fair share of success within the ECAC, but they had struggled against premier non-conference opponents...
...Crimson had no problem dispelling its premier EISL competition. On the second day of a two-day meet, Harvard won six of the final nine events to break open the race for first...
Adrift at Harvard, Morgan accepted a tenure offer from Stanford, and Bobo, who is her husband, decided to leave with her. The former Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and of African and African American studies, Bobo was one of the University’s premier sociologists and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. He also served as acting chair of Af Am while Gates was on leave during the 2003-2004 academic year...