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PIMCO is headed by Mohammed El-Arian, a former director of HMC, whose short-lived tenure managing Harvard’s endowment saw stellar returns during the boom years...
...announced while he is here. A resumption of the Peace Corps is expected to be announced, along with other promises of financial aid. "This is going to be a new type of relationship and will have some meaning like 'Most Favored Nation' would in terms of trade," says Arian Ardie, a member of the American Chamber of Commerce. "I also think it is great that he wants to spend more time here and introduce his family to a place that helped shape his upbringing. "Defining things quickly would not help in the long run, especially given the important areas...
...Kromberg has not commented publicly on the affidavit, and his office told TIME that neither he nor anyone else there would have anything to say on the matter; prosecutors have not yet said whether they'll press ahead now on the criminal-contempt charges against al-Arian. Last week Brinkema gave the defense the go-ahead to file a motion to dismiss those charges. "I think there are significant questions about what actually happened," she said. "The Justice Department is not a fishmonger...
...Brinkema presided over the 2006 trial and conviction of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. When the jury in that case sentenced Moussaoui to life in prison instead of death, Brinkema told him he would "die with a whimper" behind bars. U.S. prosecutors could have sent Sami al-Arian out of the country in disgrace three years ago. Instead, they seem to have turned a man who has rooted for suicide bombers into a man many justice advocates are rooting...
...original version of this story failed to mention that the prosecution's case was based in part on a letter that was seized by the feds at al-Arian's home but had never actually been sent...