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Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60 has long found his professional life tugged by two countervailing forces--his devotion to public service and his commitment to personal gain...
...That's one of the mysteries of Bob," says Clay Chandler '85, a correspondent who covers Rubin for The Washington Post and describes him as a "very private man" who "doesn't like to show his hand...
Indeed, it is Rubin's experience with the dual fields of private finance and public policy which, observers claim, make him an effective "steward of the nation's economy" as well as an attractive speaker for the third annual HBS Class Day ceremonies...
According to John E. "Bo" Kemp, a second-year student at HBS and the head of the 10-member Class Day committee charged with selecting this year's speaker, "The relevance of somebody like Secretary Rubin coming to speak here is that he is someone who worked his way up to become co-chair of Goldman, Sachs and then he broke away to do something completely different...
...embargo that was imposed last October and that the U.S. backed. Did the State Department ignore a clandestine delivery by a group of British mercenaries of nearly 40 tons of high-powered weapons to the diamond-rich nation? Both British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK and State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN deny knowledge of the shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word of the February deal was flashed to Washington from Africa and elsewhere. A participant in a Foggy Bottom meeting in early March says the completed shipment was described in detail at that session...