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…l needs. At the request of President Clinton’s office, she arranged for physicians and medical supplies to be sent with first responders in the days following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. She collaborated with military leaders, USAID, and Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health to...

…. While we’d disguised ourselves as enemy soldiers or military police on our intelligence operations, this would be the first time we were taking on the persona of civilian engineers, with the need to fool armed terrorists on the lookout for any sign of danger or betrayal. And fo...

… minister, even Peres didn’t know about the meeting until Yossi told him the following day. Rabin knew an hour later. I first learned of it from Uni Saguy, after Unit 8200 intercepted Arabic-language traffic concerning a briefing the Norwegians had given their Arab contacts. At f...

…ge,” said Masiyiwa. Econet intervened with a mobile payments system which has set Zimbabwe on course to become Africa’s first cashless economy. “Today 43 percent of the GDP moves through Econet Wireless,” said the telecoms mogul. Explained Econet’s chief executive, Douglas Mbowen...

…day, and he asked me to take it easy on his mouth.” kok * In October 1957, Russia sent Sputnik into space. It was the first orbiting satellite, circling the earth in 96 minutes, and making 1,440 orbits in three months. This astounding technical feat was totally unanticipated by...

…erged. Though obviously aware of the seriousness of the situation, Dado radiated his usual calm and confidence. For the first time, I felt a bit more hopeful. “Ma nishmah, Ehud? he asked, in Israelis’ everyday greeting. “What’s up?” I told him I’d just come from the airport. “I c...

…y players in the region, including Russia and even China. Three upcoming events are worth monitoring closely (Table 2): first, the 19- 20 November APEC Summit in Lima, Peru, where we are likely to see vigorous discussions on the future of the TPP as well as further progress on th...

…me friends remember that in the late 80s Epstein would offer to upgrade the airline tickets of good friends by affixing first-class stickers; the only problem was that the stickers turned out to be unofficial. Sometimes the technique worked, but other times it didn’t, and the unw...

Consider also the history of corporate leverage. Equities are riskier because bond interest is paid first. If equities grew faster, however, leverage would constantly decline. That is not what we see. This inferred concentration of risk premium in cash flow rate is convenient f...

… who created it, seriously. Now everybody writes about rock and roll that way. Jules was one of the people who did it first. “Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!” is Jules’s most famous example of rock journalism, but | think his most revolutionary is his article “The Big Beat.” It app...

…A payer, typically a customer, might swipe a card or click a screen. A payee, typically a vendor, typically must verify first that the account is authentic and covers the payment offered. An omnibus fund could be well suited to give this quick transparency. First, it is essenti...

…Epstein, who also has homes in Palm Beach, Fla., and New York, lives on Little St. James Island off St. Thomas. In his first public comments on the 10-year-old case, Jeffrey H. Sloman who at the time was second in com- mand under Acosta at the U.S. Attor- ney’s Office in Miami...

…Congress, acting in the immediate aftermath of World War II, intended the Immunities Act to serve two related purposes. First, it would “enabl[e] this country to fulfill its commitments in connection with its membership in international organiza- tions.” S. Rep. No. 861, 79th Con...

…rious consequences than those in Sweden. It was the possible American prosecution that he wished to discuss with me. I first spent several hours with Assange and his legal team over the phone and by email. We worried about the security of our lawyer/client communications, which...

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