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...last week, 350 experts and policymakers gathered in New York City to discuss the challenges for public health around the world--and why it is in the interest of Americans to care. The TIME Global Health Summit, whose participants included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Kofi Annan, Madeleine Albright, Rick Warren, Ted Turner, Paul Wolfowitz of the World Bank and UNICEF's Ann Veneman, reflected what we try to do in the magazine, which is to cover stories that are shaping our future but don't always attract big, blaring headlines. Some of the disease fighters we profiled in last week...
...blood of broken alliances, palace purges and strong people or nations beating up on weak ones--all in the service of someone's hunger for power or resources. "There's a point at which you find an interesting kind of nerve circuitry between optimism and hubris," says Warren Bennis, a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California and the author of three books on leadership. "It becomes an arrogance or conceit, an inability to live without power...
Major changes in Clinton's foreign policy team are imminent. Strobe Talbott, the State Department's Ambassador at Large to Russia and the former Soviet republics, will soon become Secretary of State Warren Christopher's No. 2 man. The Administration is concerned that its European policy is unfocused; Talbott (a former Time columnist) is being brought in to address this problem. He is said to be already interviewing candidates for top State and National Security Council posts; some high-level bureaucrats are sure to be ousted...
...other Asian countries meet their demand for effective business managers and leaders. The intensive program focused on the participant-centered learning model and the case study method of instruction, which differ greatly from the usual lecture-based format of most Asian MBA courses, according to Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan, who was one of 10 HBS professors who taught the program. Participants in the program attended at least six classes and seminars a day, in addition to the out-of-class preparation and exercises they were required to complete, according to a press release. Participants were also taught important...
...that leaves room for an unpleasant sequel. If the initiatives crash, Schwarzenegger will have an even tougher road to re-election next year--and could face competition from another Hollywood hero. Democratic stalwart Warren Beatty has begun making speeches against the Governor, and while Beatty tells TIME he doesn't particularly want to run for office, he won't rule it out. "I don't think any good citizen should take that off the table," he said, adding, "I am flattered by the question." Wonder if Arnie can still remember that feeling...