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...which began a year later. Originally hosting just six teams, the field of the NIT has grown throughout the years, with the most recent expansion in 2002 bringing the total number of invitees to 40. The NCAA recently bought out the NIT as part of the settlement of a lawsuit, making this year the first in which NCAA sanctioned officials will select the NIT field.“There’s talk amongst people in the league [that with] the expansion of the NIT and the taking over of the NIT by the NCAA there?...
Harvard’s top lawyer wrote this week to Institutional Investor magazine protesting its portrayal of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ role in the fate of a close colleague implicated in a U.S. government lawsuit. An article in the magazine’s January issue suggested that Summers’ friendship with Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer protected the professor—who led a controversial Harvard project to advise Russia in the 1990s—from consequences at Harvard. Seized by some Faculty members to criticize Summers, the article, “How Harvard Lost...
Professors also assailed Summers for the University’s handling of the government lawsuit implicating his close friend, Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82. A federal court found Shleifer liable in 2004 for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government while leading a State Department-funded Harvard project to reform Russia’s economy. The University paid $26.5 million to settle the suit in August 2005, and neither the University nor Shleifer admitted any wrongdoing...
...honorable parting of ways over managerial differences between Kirby and his boss, Summers. The other issue is whether or not Summers shielded his friend, Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer, from repercussions after he was named a defendant—and ultimately found liable—in a lawsuit which accused him of defrauding the U.S. government in an economic reform mission to Russia.The Shleifer affair is indeed a serious matter, but Faculty members’ propriety in bringing it to the scene now is questionable. The lawsuit was filed in 2000 and settled in 2004. It has been covered...
...Morning News at the time that he would keep politics out of the board's work. "There is no Republican or Democratic way to bury anybody," he said. Presiding over his first meeting, Whittington said, "If any agency needs divine guidance, it's this one." The state settled a lawsuit by the former executive director in 2001, and Whittington's term as head ends next year...