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...Citing documents in the former secret police archives, Newsweek Polska reported last month that Kapuscinski agreed to pass along information to Poland's spy agency between 1967 and 1972, probably as a condition for being allowed to travel abroad. Such deals were not uncommon for Polish journalists under the Soviet-backed regime, and in one document his handlers complain that he never gave them anything of value. With Kapuscinski unavailable for comment, the spying allegations will remain a cloud over his career. But he was acutely aware of his journalistic critics and, though he never confessed to inaccuracy, spoke...
...starters, Bush's top advisers are all graduates of the school of Star Wars, old national security hands who in one form or another cut their teeth on the issue as young policymakers. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley pursued missile defense with the Soviets as an arms control negotiator in the administration of George H. W. Bush. When he became George W. Bush's deputy National Security Adviser in 2001, he kept a small model of the Soviet ballistic missile arsenal near his desk and spent his first nine months so focused on getting a rollback of the anti-ballistic...
...student government for The Crimson into the early eighties. In fact, if a jesting Cooperman is to be believed, it may have been that Fainsod’s feel for efficiency with regards to political institutions suffered as a result of his fidelity to his particular area of expertise: Soviet Russia...
...Summers became chief economist at the World Bank. That same year, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Russian-American Shleifer—under the auspices of the World Bank—became an adviser to the Russian government, eventually leading economic liberalization efforts through the Harvard Institute for International Development...
...experience, and he is bright and capable. He’s a skillful negotiator, and that’s what the job needs.” Bush cited Zoellick’s work in such fields as Latin American debt relief and the transition of post-Soviet economies as further evidence of his qualification for the post. Zoellick is also a noted free trade advocate. He said during the Wednesday press conference that this philosophy would inform his stewardship of the Bank. “The Bank’s reliance on markets, investments, sound policies, good governance and partnerships...