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...Coffey, the executive managing editor of Publishers Weekly, says it reminds him of a book penned by another President who was trying to salvage his reputation: Richard Nixon's 1962 bestseller, Six Crises, in which he tried to set the record straight about such uncomfortable topics as the Checkers speech and his role in the Alger Hiss case. "The fact that Bush is apparently structuring his memoir around a number of key decisions that he made, to me strikes a similar chord with Nixon's approach," Coffey says. "I don't imagine that Bush is pondering some kind of comeback...
It’s been less than two months since President Obama was inaugurated, but the sheen of the new administration has already begun to fade. During the first week of his presidency, Obama gave a very pretty speech in which he “rejected as false the choice between safety and ideals” and signed an executive order to close the controversial prison at the United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama’s first post on the White House website also claimed that his administration would be “the most open...
Gerry Adams—president of Sinn Féin, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland—eschewed the recent violence in his home country in a speech at a packed Institute of Politics last night. “The pathway forward is a strong one toward peace and reconciliation,” Adams said. “The story of Ireland was one of death and distress.” Adams last spoke at Harvard in 1994, when Northern Ireland and Sinn Féin—which has been historically associated with the Irish Republican...
...speech to 100 new advisers, Medvedev said the "reserve" pool of managers was created because "the appearance of new people in appropriate positions in our country is going very slowly." Dubbed the Golden 100, the group will eventually grow into a 1,000-strong collection of leading figures from the government, plus the science, education and business sectors. The first 100 include CEOs from leading Russian banks, retail firms, transport businesses and information-technology companies...
Several officers have already resigned since the announcement, and sensitivity in the upper ranks remains. "In the last few months it became very clear that there was a lot of opposition to these plans," says Golts. "The biggest surprise in Medvedev's speech was the fact that, yes, even in the economic crisis these reforms are going to take place and within a fairly short time span." The cuts are necessary to free up funds to modernize equipment. On Tuesday, Serdyukov said that only 10% of military equipment is up-to-date. Medvedev said it would be better...