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...book, “A Normal Country: Russia After Communism,” Shleifer’s vociferous defense of the application of laissez-faire economics to post-Soviet Russia culminates in a daring claim—that, thanks to shock therapy, Russia is now a “normal country.” He does not hide the fact that he is taking on deeply entrenched popular wisdom in the United States; indeed, he revels...
...ferocious management style seemed to strike a toxic note. One charge came from Melody Townsel, who dispatched an impassioned e-mail to the committee about her encounters with Bolton while working for a private subcontractor on a 1994 U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) mission in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Townsel says she wrote a letter to AID officials complaining about the lack of funds for the project from the contractor, a company that had hired Bolton as a lawyer. "Within hours after dispatching that letter," Townsel told the committee, "my hell began. Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase...
This August, Laursen and several other mountaineers will trek into the Central Borkoldoy Range of Kyrgyzstan, an area that had been closed to foreign climbers until the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then, only five expeditions have reported visiting the range...
Other comments: On U.S. pressure for political reforms. We can't really understand why America keeps on thrashing away [at us], while the Soviets don't. The Soviet leaders did not press us at all. "Tell us what you need," they said, "and we will give it to you." President Reagan is no problem. He is very enlightened about us. It's the [U.S.] system...
...Soviet diplomacy. While America is immersed in high technology and hardware, Russia is building relationships--and when it's people you are cultivating, you can hardly go wrong. America had better watch out. The moment [President Marcos and I] are no longer here, the Russians will take over. Stupid America...