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Simply put, the $2.1 billion Capital Campaign, driven by generous alumni, made so by an even more generous stock market, makes it possible...
...often done before, by gaining intimate access to Yeltsin's closest advisers, chief of staff Valentin Yumashev and younger daughter Tatyana Dyachenko. Yumashev is a "wholly privatized" Berezovsky subsidiary, says Aksyuchits, and Dyachenko is allegedly beholden to Berezovsky for his handling the family's finances and making generous contributions to her father's re-election. Both advisers have for several months been privately urging Yeltsin to stand down, Aksyuchits tells TIME: "They almost succeeded in July, but Nemtsov and Chubais were able to stop it." Yumashev and Dyachenko argued that Chernomyrdin was the only person who could protect the President...
...Despite the news, the Nikkei index slipped only slightly Wednesday because the Japanese Diet looked to be making some progress -- albeit slow and circuitous -- toward a critical compromise on banking reform. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party favors maintaining a fairly generous state-sponsored bank rescue plan, while opposition parties (and the West) want to let weak banks and the enterprises they support perish. Somewhere in the middle may be a viable bill, and the latest round of failures may be enough to spur even the often listless LDP to get economic reform out of the hemming-and-hawing phase...
...speech, a guest on Larry King Live said the President should "do a 100% grovel." The American President cannot, should not, must not grovel. But a strong man can tell hard truths; can be tough on himself; can, through painful candor, inspire a nation to be its best, most generous self. But he must be his best, most generous self first...
...most families. "I would not recommend that any client save money in an EIRA," concludes Satovsky. Colleges have yet to decide how they'll count that money when determining aid, he reasons. Furthermore, in the year they withdraw from their EIRA, students won't qualify for the other generous programs created by Congress last year: the HOPE scholarship and the Lifetime Learning credit. Nor can money they withdraw from an EIRA be used in conjunction with a prepaid tuition plan. Since EIRAs are not considered retirement funds, they are set up in a child's name, and their value...