Re: Rumsfeld

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > from wikipedia:
 > 
 > xxxxx and North Korea
 > 
 > Rumsfeld sat on xxxxx's board from 1990 to 2001.

OMG, I just missed working for Rumsfeld -- I started at xxxxx in 1990.

 > xxxxxâ??based in Zürich, Switzerlandâ??is a
 > European engineering giant formed through the merger between ASEA of
 > Sweden and Boveri of Switzerland. In 2000 this company sold two
 > light-water nuclear reactors to KEDO for installation in North Korea,
 > as part of the 1994 agreed framework reached under President Bill
 > Clinton.
 > 
 > The sale of the nuclear technology was a high-profile contract. xxxx's
 > then chief executive, Göran Lindahl, visited North Korea in
 > November 1999 to announce xxxxx' s "wide-ranging, long-term cooperation
 > agreement" with the communist government.  Rumsfeld's office said
 > that the Secretary of Defense did not "recall it being brought before
 > the board at any time." But xxxxx spokesman Björn Edlund told
 > Fortune that "board members were informed about this project."

Wow.  Mind-boggling.

 >   --NG
 >   PS are you happy that the inventor of IVF won a Nobel prize?

Not particularly.

I asked Amy about Chris getting a vasectomy and my mom, Amy, and I got
into a discussion about circumcision.  Apparently, Flora insisted that
Nick and Alex not get circumcised.