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...woeful double standard is at work here, as evidenced by the recent events surrounding the plagiarism committed by Carl M. Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62. Tribe’s 1985 book, “God Save This Honorable Court,” fails to credit text lifted verbatim from Henry J. Abraham’s book “Justices and Presidents.” In a joint statement issued Thursday by President Summers and Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, the University declined to formally punish Tribe in any substantial way. While Tribe...
Moreover, many firms that received bank loans in flush times have turned out to be bad credit risks whose problems have been compounded by plunging property and stock values. In Kuwait an estimated one-third of some bank portfolios are made up of loans on which borrowers are no longer making interest payments. In Saudi Arabia, only two of ten banks last year reported an increase in earnings...
...1970s, as Jimmy Carter's special Middle East envoy, and as chairman of countless public and private bodies, from the National Urban Coalition to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Despite his years in high places, Linowitz remains a remarkably modest man. This memoir contains few claims of credit for policy coups and no attempts at self-justification or revenge. The only enemy in sight is a little-known Pentagon official who opposed the canal treaties, and who is nonetheless described as "charming, capable, and full of goodwill...
...reached $26 billion, gross national product was shrinking at an annual rate of about 5%, and underemployment was estimated to be 40%. An opinion poll taken by a private think tank with ties to the Roman Catholic Church, however, showed that 44% of the population was willing to credit Marcos and his ruling party with doing a good job. More important, the democratic forces that had been galvanized by the 1983 assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino were in serious disarray. Nonetheless, Marcos shelved the election idea at that time...
...That’s an outstanding thing for [the freshmen],” Medaris said. “They’re to be given much credit to be able to come back from a loss the week before and put it all on the line against one of the number one crews in Princeton...