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...Both the United States Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense have doctorates in Russian studies. A fat lot of good that's done us.' ROBERT M. GATES, Defense Secretary, on the U.S.'s strained ties with Russia...
...Swedish experts caution that the Swedish financial system is relatively small compared to the U.S. In 1992 most leading government officials knew the bank chiefs on a first name basis. Still, the Swedish experience could hold other lessons, says Robert Bergquist, chief analyst at SEB, one of Sweden's largest banks. "The Swedish success depended on four factors," he explains. Stockholm acted quickly, in open acknowledgement of the problems, and under a broad political agreement across the party spectrum. "Running parallel with these three factors," he says, "a new economic policy - new goals for inflation and the budget - was developed...
...current recruiting season. But Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds said she has not heard of students with specific family problems stemming from the downturn. Finally, election results for the parliamentarian, who runs the proceedings for the faculty meetings, will be announced soon, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell. Official word cannot be given until the chosen candidate has been informed of his or her appointment. —Staff Writer Benjamin M. Jaffe can be reached at bjaffe@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...award, given to them in a ceremony at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston. “What we look for in a great negotiator is someone who has demonstrated the capacity to overcome barriers and create solutions in a number of settings,” said Robert H. Mnookin ’64, Law School professor and chair of the Program on Negotiation. “We thought that Christo and Jeanne-Claude had done this a number of times.” The artists have enjoyed widespread popularity and even support from New York City Mayor Michael...
...Nobel Prize-winning Harvard professor of economics and philosophy, argued against what he called the mainstream theory of social justice in a talk at Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall yesterday. Sen argued that the transcendental theory of justice, which he attributed to philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick, overlooks important aspects of justice by concentrating narrowly on what it would take to have a perfectly just society, rather than on improving existing, imperfect social structures. “Justice-enhancing changes demand comparative assessment, not any immaculate identification of the just society,” Sen said...