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...have to be sold to the people back home. An insider at the talks said Prabhakaran warned his negotiators by telephone: "We told (Tiger rebels) to fight and die for a separate state. Now we are asking them to be chums with their enemies again." Observers, however, hope the thaw in Oslo will continue. "There was no heat," says the insider. "Only warmth...
...pact with Citigroup to address systemic abuses in the way lucrative initial public offerings (IPOs) of stock have been showered on CEOs who sent investment-banking business to Citi. Spitzer is still digging for dirt, so any deal may be several weeks away. But the whole episode signaled a thaw in Weill's ice-age thinking. Playing to fat cats at the expense of retail investors was no longer defensible. Almost overnight, what had been de rigueur was deplored, and Weill's giant firm had been singled out as the poster child for big bad banks...
During his first year in office, Summers made several efforts to thaw the traditionally chilly ties between Harvard and the military. In an October address at the Kennedy School, Summers suggested that academia needed to show the armed services greater respect. In June he became the first University president in over 30 years to attend the commissioning eremony for the College’s graduates of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC...
During his first year in office, Summers made several efforts to thaw the traditionally chilly ties between Harvard and the military. In an October address at the Kennedy School, Summers suggested that academia needed to show the armed services greater respect. In June he became the first University president in over 30 years to attend the commissioning ceremony for the College’s graduates of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC...
...mysteriously blocked. Reports began to filter back that his name was being blackened at the highest levels of government. Finally, Mokhtar asked for an audience with the Prime Minister. For the first 20 minutes, Mahathir sat stony-faced, his arms crossed. But, Mokhtar associates say, the PM began to thaw as Mokhtar explained himself. The meeting ended cordially after two hours. "That interview was a turning point in his life," says a friend...