daily princetonian - Was it better in the old days? Jonathan ...

In his book's acknowledgments he thanks the Kazakh foreign ministry for free hotel accommodation and Sir Richard Evans, the former chairman of BAE Systems, for several free plane rides around Kazakhstan. (Evans was hired by Nazarbayev to sort out the .... By 1968, at the age of 28, he had become a full-time Party official. Intelligent and energetic, he hated incompetence and was a stickler for efficiency and hard work â€" which inevitably made him a rebel within the system. ...