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...editors: Alan Dershowitz dismisses allegations of plagiarism on the grounds that I am a “hard-left” academic (“Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized,” letter, May 5). I understand neither what this means nor its relevance: the basis of rational inquiry is the merit of an argument, not its provenance. NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN Chicago, Ill. May 8, 2006 The writer is a professor of political science at DePaul University...
...Consider the lineup: Paul O'Neill, the onetime Alcoa boss, was brought in by Vice President Dick Cheney chiefly to make then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan happy. The three men had worked closely in the Ford White House, and Cheney thought he was bringing the band back together. But reunion tours don't work much better in government than they do in rock 'n' roll, and O'Neill, who had a flair for candor that matched Cheney's for secrecy, quit - or was fired, depending on whose account you believe - after two shaky years...
...Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, was forced to step down over allegations of misuse of earmarks and misreporting on his financial disclosures, and the Justice Department is reportedly reviewing a complaint against him. The Republican head of the House Appropriations Committee, Jerry Lewis, is reportedly under investigation for potential misuse of earmarks. Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, on trial for illegal campaign fund transfers, is also under investigation for dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former staffers. The former Chairman of the House Administration Committee, Ohio Republican Bob Ney, has been fingered by four people...
...EMINENT PERSON’ As he rebuilds HMC, El-Erian will also be advising the International Monetary Fund on the financing of its core operations. He will serve on a “committee of eminent persons” along with former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, and five others, the fund announced Thursday. El-Erian rose to deputy director of the IMF’s Middle East Department during his decade-and-a-half at the fund, and he was reportedly a candidate for the fund?...
...think some of this is pretty bold,” Alan B. Lenarcic ‘03 said, citing the “couple of hot shots” Lewis took at Harvard students, the Faculty, and the University president. “I remember how [Lewis] was sort of forced out, which I thought was pretty sad, so I was interested in seeing what type of comments he had, given the overtly negative title of this book...