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...Brown says that during his time at Harvard, he developed a relationship with three economics professors who sparked his curiosity about politics: Andrés Velasco, the Sumitomo-FASID professor of international development, Robert J. Barro, the Warburg professor of economics, and Andrei Shleifer ’82, the Jones professor of economics...
...certain legal settlement costs,” the report said. Harvard’s balance sheet for fiscal 2005 includes a $26.5 million payment to the U.S. government to settle a breach of contract suit.The settlement stemmed from a civil fraud complaint brought against the University, economist Andrei Shleifer ’82, and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay.The annual report also revealed some of the financial plans for the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, a biomedical research center established jointly by Harvard and MIT to study the human genome.Both schools together will raise $20 million per year...
...will among state-owned and even private enterprises." From these proceeds Lukashenko maintains a Soviet-style welfare state providing basic medical services, education and pensions - though the payouts are meager. Yet relations with Russia remain uneasy: there is no love lost between Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin, says Andrei Sannikov, former Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Kremlin is keen to bring Belarus back into Russia's fold. If Moscow were to shut off the oil, Lukashenko's regime would collapse. But for now, the ornery President holds off another democratic revolution on Russia's borders. Lukashenko does that...
...real world. Won’t the personal satisfaction involved in working for the Hague offset having to pass up on traveling in Italy? Also, if you’re doing it in Russia, Central Asia, or Eastern Europe, you can work through the more sexily named Andrei Sakharov Internship through the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies...
...appear to have eroded totalitarian controls and changed mindsets in the doggedly Stalinist state. How much is hard to say. But a Russian scholar on our tour notes that the crowds aren't as passionate as they once were. In the 1980s, ?You could see their eyes shining,? says Andrei Lankov, who lived in Pyongyang in 1984-85. ?People are maybe not learning the truth but (they are) getting tired...