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  • Scene Last Night: Hillary Clinton, Murdoch, Harrison Ford

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recalled Harrison Ford jumping out from behind a big potted plant. He wasn’t playing Han Solo or Indiana Jones, but rather a conservationist handing out a position paper on the oceans.

  • Let the Free Market Not Bureaucrats Build Bridges

    For a country that prides itself on a robust private sector, the U.S. lags behind many other nations in using the private sector to finance, build and operate infrastructure. From 1990 to 2006, for example, public-private partnerships financed five times as much transportation infrastructure in the U.K. as in the U.S. -- even though the U.S. economy is more than six times larger than that of the U.K.

  • Could Hillary Clinton Be America’s Thatcher?

    Who thought that in stuffy old England in the 1980s a woman could act like a man and thrive, but here in the New World, Hillary Clinton still has to watch her p’s and q’s in 2013? Margaret Thatcher didn’t change a hair, hedge a bet or trim a sail. She never had to be told to lean in because she never leaned back. She was certain, opinionated and strident to the point of, yes, shrillness. Listen to her on gay rights: It’s fingernails on a chalkboard.

  • Clinton Seeks Student Innovation to Address Social Issues

    Former U.S. President Bill Clinton told a gathering of college-student innovators not to be dissuaded by fear of failure because even that may hold the seeds of eventual success.

  • Tamiflu-Resistance Gene in H7N9 Bird Flu Spurs Drug Tests

    A gene mutation known to help influenza resist Tamiflu was found in the first of three H7N9 bird-flu patient specimens in China, sequence data show.

  • Clinton Bemoans Scant Hedge-Fund Support for Global Initiative

    Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said he has noticed that few hedge-fund managers attend his 4- day conference aimed at linking philanthropists with groups working to spur economic development around the world.

  • Scene Last Night: Davos Piano Man for Homeless World Cup

    Barry Colson, who plays the Hotel Europe piano bar during Davos, had the same jokes and songs last night at the Gansevoort Park Avenue.

  • Obama at UN Vows U.S. Won’t Let Iran Gain Nuclear Weapon

    President Barack Obama pledged in a speech to world leaders today that the U.S. will do what it takes to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon and warned that time for a diplomatic resolution “is not unlimited.”

  • Bill Clinton Says U.S. Lacks Planning Needed for Global Success

    Former President Bill Clinton, opening a conference on job creation, said the U.S. lacks the long-term budgeting and planning needed to be as successful as possible on the global stage.

  • Chelsea Clinton on Global Initiative

    Charlie Rose on BTV - Monday, October 8, 2012 (Full Show For Mobile - Part 2) Chelsea Clinton discusses the Clinton Global Initiative.

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