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...bought their palatial government-owned country houses for ludicrously low prices. Former Politburo member Alexandra Biryukova reportedly paid only 19,000 rubles for her dacha west of Moscow, although its real value was assessed at 754,000 rubles. Communists even turned to capitalists in an effort to conceal or divert their cash. "The Central Committee and other party organizations have been investing finances in shareholding companies, joint ventures, commercial banks and other commercial structures of various kinds," according to an announcement by the Soviet State bank, which last week froze all party funds. The bank itself may have been involved...
Those weapons, to be sure, are irrelevant to Gorbachev's current preoccupations and divert resources from perestroika. In fact, rather than fretting about a bolt-from-the-blue Soviet attack on the U.S., experts at the CIA and Pentagon have lately been worrying about the much more plausible danger that Soviet tactical nukes, as well as chemical and biological weapons, might end up in the hands of secessionist rebels in the U.S.S.R. or shady merchants in the international arms bazaar. Still, American defense planners cannot entirely rule out the possibility that the Strategic Rocket Forces might pose a threat...
...past decade the FDA has been given a host of new and taxing responsibilities, including the oversight of the generic-drug industry, the evaluation of hundreds of AIDS treatments and now the redesigning of food labels. Yet the agency's budget has not increased proportionally. "We've had to divert people from laboratory work, and we've brought people in from the field," says Ed Scarbrough, the chief architect of the FDA's new labeling program. He believes that the task of coming up with revised guidelines would require 120 people. He has just...
...recent years, even a few administrators have begun to take note of the problem. Former Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence and incoming President Neil L. Rudenstine have both stressed the need to divert more money and resources to the teaching of undergraduates...
Sadly, however, undergraduate education at Harvard seems to be a case of the fish rotting from the tail up. Administrators can divert money and attention toward the College, but the root of the problem lies in the departmental bureaucracy. To put it simply, Harvard is plagued by an excess of "teachers" who simply do not want to have to teach...