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...four years I have been at Harvard, I would say a half dozen of my colleagues know I'm gay and have no problem with it," said Aga Khan Professor of Iranian P. Oktor Skjaervo...
...figures in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.) scandal. But the bank's two senior officers, who handled huge sums of the emir's fortune until investigators closed the fraudulent operation in 1991, weren't present to help pay up. One of them, 71-year-old founder Aga Hasan Abedi, is now ensconced in his native Pakistan, on good terms with local officials and unlikely to face extradition. "He's the mastermind, and he's sitting up there in Karachi," says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who has investigated the scandal. "It appears that the Abu Dhabians believe that...
Hasty Pudding president Zara Aga Khan '94 saidthe club has professional bouncers who check theidentification of all who enter the building andthat the club follows the University's alcoholpolicy, which prohibits serving alcohol to minors...
FINANCE: How the Aga Khan Stumbled...
...desperate effort to pare down the debt, Fimpar, the Aga Khan's holding company, planned to raise $200 million on the Milan stock exchange. But the Gulf War scared off investors, and the plans had to be dropped. Finally, the Aga Khan hired Goldman Sachs last year to sell off some of Ciga's lesser hotels in hopes of raising roughly $175 million to repay loans and stanch losses. One of the few buyers that stepped forward was Situr, an Italian property group, but before a deal could be struck, Situr alleged that Ciga's books contained serious irregularities...