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...fact a lot of stuff going on with the Amish. Far more, I had to admit, than is going on with me. Amish churches, he said, will spend the next year wrestling over whether to allow members to own cell phones. This seemed odd to me, since Amish beliefs forbid members to drive a car, go to school past eighth grade or have phones in their homes. But someone found a loophole in the phone rule, discovering it was very specific about not allowing wires from the outside world into their houses. They can't use electricity from public-utility...
Shleifer faced the lawsuit for some under-the-table investments he made in Russia while leading a U.S.-funded program to privatize the economy there in the 1990s. Conflict of interest provisions in Shleifer’s contract with the government explicitly forbid him from investing in the very economy he was in charge of developing. Harvard was also named in the suit and this summer agreed to pay $26.5 million, the largest settlement in the school’s history, according to a University spokesman...
...about the cost of my rent for six months. I have a second tooth that also really needs a crown, but I can’t afford it now, so it will have to wait, although I run the risk of damaging it further (and, god forbid, of losing the tooth).” —Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) student
...couldn't expect her to. Not when Muslim leaders themselves won't go there. Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general for the Muslim Council of Britain, is an example. In the midst of a debate with me, he listed potential incentives to bomb, including "alienation" and "segregation." But Islam? God forbid that the possibility even be entertained...
...regulations forbid the advertising of private equity fund capital campaigns like RSS Investors, LP. Palfrey would not disclose specifics about the fund—including when the group expects to finish fundraising...