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...Yukos hasn't already done so is that a majority of the board believes it would be impossible to find a Russian court willing to approve the petition. Indeed, the day before Conoco signed the Lukoil deal, the Moscow court where Khodorkovsky is on trial refused to allow former German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, who's serving as an official European human-rights representative, to speak with him. The Yukos case "has set the Russian judicial system back a decade," says Sarah Carey, a Washington lawyer who serves on the Yukos board...
...copies, mostly in Britain; Starsky and Cox are in discussion with the BBC about developing a companion TV series. "Sextrology tells you everything you ever needed to know about your other half - but were afraid to ask," says BBC producer Sally Lisk-Lewis. The authors have also sold Russian, German and Spanish rights to the book. In France, even without a French translation, the Parisian style and design boutique Colette sells about 300 copies a month. "The laughter, the pleasure of discovering what people read is very visible and very immediate," says Colette spokesman Guillaume Salmon. The book's success...
Then, after purges of Jewish professors and students had swept German universities in 1936, the Harvard administration sent a delegation to participate in the 550th anniversary celebration of the University of Heidelberg, alongside Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. “Should not one be ready to build a scholarly bridge between two nations?” asked Harvard’s then-President James B. Conant ’14 in his autobiography...
...wrong thing, especially when it’s not even true. Though Harvard was certainly not alone in its stance towards the Nazis, there were other universities that did not share its anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi attitudes. Williams College, for instance, was moving to terminate its relations with German universities. The same year that President Conant had tea with Ernst Hanfstaengl, the Chancellor of New York University called on “teachers, scientists and men of letters” to “resist with all their power” the academic policies of the Nazis...
...hasn't already done so is that a majority of board members believe it would be impossible to find a Russian court willing to approve the petition. Indeed, the day before Conoco signed the Lukoil deal, the Moscow court where Khodorkovsky is on trial refused to allow a former German Justice Minister serving as an official European human-rights representative to speak with him. The Yukos case "has set the Russian judicial system back a decade," says Sarah Carey, a Washington lawyer who serves on the Yukos board. The company, she adds, "is like the mouse being tortured to death...