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...recently worked out a contract with Harvard University Dining Services and the College to determine the wages of pub workers and give the student business control over the employment process, he added...
...world, with the most citations of any economist, according to one measure. But his career was tainted when he and various acquaintances, as well as Harvard, were sued under the False Claims Act for buying Russian stocks and short-term state bonds in violation of Harvard’s contract with the United States Agency for International Development. In 2005, a settlement was reached between the government and the defendant parties, with Harvard and Shleifer paying millions of dollars in damages. And up until last week, Harvard had allowed Shleifer to maintain his endowed title with the Faculty of Arts...
DIED. Anna Politkovskaya, 48, award-winning Russian journalist, known globally for her powerful reporting on atrocities committed by the Russian military in Chechnya; after being shot repeatedly by an unidentified gunman as she stepped off the elevator in her apartment building; in Moscow. Her murder, the 13th contract-style killing of a journalist in Russia since Vladimir Putin became President in 1999, sparked allegations that the Kremlin might have been involved in the crime. Putin denied the charge, calling the shooting "dreadful and unacceptable...
...unique location, "Panama was born globalized," he says, "born to do projects like this." Alas, piracy is also a part of Panama's colorful history--and many of its politicians still bring that tradition to projects like this, which is why Torrijos has begun long overdue anticorruption measures like contract-bidding reforms. He knows that even if voters endorse the expansion, it's likely to be judged less by how well it digs supersize ships into the canal than by how well it digs Panama out of its Third World troubles...
...represented," he told me. But those were politicians who had big ideas or were willing to take big risks, and so far, Barack Obama hasn't done much of either. With the exception of a bipartisan effort with ultra-conservative Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to publish every government contract--a matter of some embarrassment to their pork-loving colleagues--his record has been predictably liberal. And the annoying truth is, The Audacity of Hope isn't very audacious...