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Clifford and law partner Robert Altman, who is First American's president, are now under scrutiny by a New York grand jury seeking to determine whether the pair were knowing front men for one of the most ingenious bank tycoons of the modern age: B.C.C.I.'s founder, Agha Hasan Abedi of Pakistan. Clifford and Altman insist they were not, despite long and close connections. They were attorneys for B.C.C.I. from 1978 through 1990, as well as attorneys for First American, billing the two banks for more than $1 million during that period. Clifford, who has long defended Abedi, says...
Colgate (81): Dave Goodwin 4-7 4-4 14; Jim Cook 0-2 0-0 0; Devin Hughes 5-11 6-7 17; Jack Ehretsman 3-7 4-4 10; Jay Armstrong 6-11 0-0 12; Hasan Brown 1-1 0-3 3; Brennan Lothery 1-1 2-2 4; Jack Ruppert 0-0 0-0 0; Jason Whatley 1-1 0-0 2; Jonathan Stone 6-12 2-2 14; Steve Benton...
...that will attend the truly invasive societal changes contemplated for New Kuwait. If there is a consensus among Kuwaitis about anything, it is this: despite its vast wealth, Kuwait's society was sick, and not merely because of democratic failings or the poor treatment of expatriates. "At bottom," says Hasan al-Ebraheem, the former Education Minister, "much was rotted...
...people go for the sheepskin, not for the knowledge. With employment assured, there is no need to actually learn anything if you are not self-motivated." Performance and accountability "are only the beginning of the new discipline we are going to have to inject into our school system," says Hasan al-Ebraheem. "We have to break up the university, create elite centers of training in specific skills like banking and business, and then we have to encourage those who cannot make it in those places to accept vocational training...
...will be an unprecedented demographic make-over. As quickly as possible, Kuwait's population will be dramatically reduced, perhaps even halved. "How * do you get people to actually stop being lazy?" asks Ambassador Saud. "Why should anyone care about a real education, or making do with fewer handouts?" asks Hasan al-Ebraheem. The answer is that nothing will change unless everything changes. And the way for everything to change is to take a country that had more than 2 million people before August and recreate it with only 1 million. "The only way to exit the trap of dependency," says...