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Buyers then write two checks. One, at the official, U.N.-approved price, is deposited in a U.N.-monitored Iraqi bank account in New York City. But the 30˘ kickback goes directly to Saddam after deposit in an Iraqi bank account in Jordan or some other location over which the U.N. has no control. During one 10-month period in 2000 and 2001, officials working with the U.N. determined that Iraq had successfully imposed a 30˘-per-bbl. surcharge, netting Saddam $175 million...
...over other considerations, like creative development. Others feel such arguments are purely reflexive. "It's intellectual snobbery," says Colin Tweedy, chief executive of Arts & Business, a London-based body that develops partnerships between business and the arts. To him, corporate ideology brings the arts two blessings. The first: financial accountability, which he sees as a road to longevity. The second? "The private sector is far less onerous in its stipulations," he insists, dismissing the idea that corporate sponsors seek to influence the creative direction of the artists or galleries they sponsor. Can the marriage of art and business succeed...
...Back at high school in Hong Kong I used to go to the pub with my teachers all the time.” Yet in spite of almost all being of age, only Palmer-Amaning helped himself to a Heineken care of FM’s expense account. Five of the others, ordering over the fortuitous din of Kim Wilder’s Kids in America, went for a rather different beverage. “Diet Coke, please...
Chernoff said counts on picket lines can be deceptive, because they fail to take into account strikers assisting in other ways...
...substance to the split between the Islamic groups. Indeed he readily makes concessions for the local militants, suggesting somewhat sympathetically that Komal's logistic support for Ansar's attempted assassination on the Kurdish prime minister earlier this year may have been given without the leadership's knowledge. "They cannot account for individuals," he says. He confirmed government discussions had been underway with Komal, but did not give details...