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...There are a lot of pensioners in this town who live off their Afinsa earnings," she says. "They're the ones who would really suffer." Fructuoso Pacheco, 85, is one of them. The retired farmer has about €18,000 invested with Afinsa. He's angry, calling the whole affair "shameless." But he is also circumspect. "I blame them," Pacheco says. "But I blame myself...
...says. “People want to read about real people who are in difficult situations that they can identify with....You can really see human nature at work, both the good, the bad, and the ugly.”And at Harvard, the “tawdry Shleifer affair,” as one professor termed it, certainly got ugly.Summers recused himself from the University’s handling of the Shleifer scandal, but he’s more than a peripheral player in McClintick’s drama.The article opens in 1996 with an image of Summers...
...American Heritage Dictionary: Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance. 2. Harvard: Very, very expensive: “The outcome of the tawdry Shleifer affair and the attending pecuniary loss to the University would have been unthinkable under the previous two presidencies....” (Farish A. Jenkins, Jr., Agassiz professor of zoology, at the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting...
...little to be tenured: “Some seniors supported her, one or two were hostile to it as I remember, and I suspect the bulk, like me, voted on the grounds that it was premature without further work.”WRIGHT AND WRONG“The Skocpol affair more expressed tensions than caused them, I think. This was an era of charged political atmosphere,” recalls White. Indeed, the Sociology Department was not the only one to be accused of discrimination. In the spring of 1981, Josephine P. Wright, a former assistant professor of African...
...calls a “house arrest kind-of-thing,” where she was not allowed to enter the HBR building. “Things were wild,” she says, referring to her experiences going back to work after she told Kiechel about the affair. “Some people were really understanding and compassionate, and other people were just downright mad.”When asked where she personally draws the line between objectivity and getting too close to a source, she says that when a relationship with a source “compromises your...