Witte finally fell to bureaucratic and palace intrigue and was cashiered as finance minister in 1903.
Similarly, the asparagus nage, a thick stew of nettles, mustard seeds and witte beer, is a surprise.
Israel was the last country in the Middle East to establish diplomatic ties with China, Witte said.
Witte also encouraged the growth of technical institutes to provide a new Russia with the talent it needed.
Washington Post staff writer Griff Witte has been covering the private contracting business.
Although a staunch monarchist, Witte assiduously and adroitly cultivated American and foreign reporters.
Witte put Russia on the gold standard to attract international capital and help create domestic capital to expand the economy.
Mr. GRIFF WITTE (The Washington Post): Thanks so much for having me.
Unfortunately for Witte and Russia, Alexander died early and was succeeded by his utterly ill-prepared, indecisive and weak-willed young son, Nicholas II.
H. in 1905, the czar appointed Witte to head the Russian delegation.
Sergei Witte was a fascinating man, and this book, based on his memoirs and voluminous reminiscences, will appeal to people here and around the world.
Witte played the public as if he were a natural-born politician.
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Mr. WITTE: One of the lessons of Iraq, if you talk to the people who are now overseeing contracts in Iraq, is that you need oversight very early in the process.
Ironically, the Trans-Siberian Railway, which Witte saw as a generator of commerce, was seen by the czar and others as a means to project Russian military power into the Far East.
The death of the army commander puts more pressure on the Pakistani government to take action to end the six-day standoff at the mosque, Griff Witte of the Washington Post tells NPR's Robert Smith.
Mr. WITTE: Well, it's an interesting question because FEMA is an agency, obviously, that is under attack right now, very heavily criticized, and it's an agency that is being criticized in large part because the agency has been hollowed out, to a certain extent.
Mr. WITTE: If the Katrina recovery does not work out well, if it continues to flail, if it continues to be beset by the same kind of problems that you saw with the initial response, I think that you are going to be seeing a lot of people wondering was it a good decision to outsource so much of what government does, to contract that out?
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