Word: warrens
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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...
Colson and Warren represent what may be Lewis' most fascinating aspect: his posthumous migration from liberal to conservative icon. He was an Anglican whose natural first constituency was the old Protestant denominations. But by the 1960s the mainline's interest had shifted from core orthodoxies to social action. Screwtape, by contrast, advised that to damn a man, "get [him] at first to value social justice ... and then work him on to the stage at which he values Christianity because it may produce social justice...
...devise practical solutions to the health crisis in the developing world. The conference is organized around 10 "big questions," from "Why do 10 million children have to die?" to "How do we prepare for the next plague?", and includes among its speakers Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, Rick Warren and Madeleine Albright...