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...There hasn't been the space yet for us to make real changes," says Nona D. Strauss, co-chair of the applied and physical sciences joint council and director of the Science Center. "We try to find generic issues that we really can affect, rather then policy issues that will be decided in another forum...
...President Clinton ponders whether to extend China's most-favored-nation trading status, Levi Strauss & Co., the world's largest maker of name-brand apparel, has decided to phase out its Chinese operations because of "pervasive violations" of human rights. The decision abides by the company's investment guidelines, adopted last year. A Chinese Foreign Ministry official downplayed the impact. "At present there are tens of thousands of foreign companies investing in China," he said. "If one or two want to withdraw, please do." Levi's withdrawal will halt production of 5 million pants and shirts a year...
Happily, the recording is just the first of what promises to be Fleisher's complete traversal of the left-hand repertoire, including solo pieces, chamber music and other concertos by the likes of Scriabin, Saint-Saens, Hindemith and Richard Strauss -- virtually unknown music by major composers that fully deserves wider hearing. A virtue of necessity, perhaps. But what a virtue...
Baker was brought into the firm by its founding partner and top-ranking Democrat, David Rubenstein, a former domestic adviser to President Jimmy Carter. He met Baker after the election through their mutual friend Robert Strauss, the wheeling-dealing Democrat who had just finished serving as Bush's Ambassador to Moscow. "Here I was with a man who helped throw me and other Democrats out of office 12 years ago," recalls Rubenstein of his first meeting with Baker in the White House. "And we had been brought together by a prominent Democrat fresh from duty in a Republican Administration...
...much bite. In a settlement that some observers criticized as toothless, the federal watchdog agency fined three former top managers a combined $225,000 for their failure to provide proper supervision. John Gutfreund, chairman, was fined $100,000 and permanently barred from running a securities firm. Thomas Strauss, president, and John Meriwether, vice chairman, were both fined and suspended from Wall Street activities for three to six months...