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DISMISSED. A LAWSUIT demanding damages by 188 plaintiffs offended by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's three visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors soldiers killed in past wars, among them 14 Class-A war criminals; by the Osaka High Court; in Osaka. Although the court rejected the demands for nominal payments of $90 per plaintiff from Koizumi, the Japanese government and the shrine, its judgment also said that the prime minister's visits?which routinely roil relations with China and South Korea by rekindling resentment of Japanese wartime atrocities?violate a constitutional requirement calling for the separation of church...
...Shleifer was getting screwed by the government, he certainly hasn’t been screwed by Harvard. Since the lawsuit was filed in 2000, Shleifer has received an endowed chair at the University, a hefty raise, and a paid leave of absence. No formal punishment of the professor has been announced, though it’s possible he’s been disciplined internally. Harvard won’t comment on personnel matters...
...friendship between Summers and Shleifer added an awkward angle to the lawsuit for Harvard. The two men, both recipients of the John Bates Clark Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in economics, used to spend summers together in Cape...
Summers recused himself from the University’s legal strategy in the lawsuit, and Harvard called in former University President Derek C. Bok as an advisor. But Summers still has control over Shleifer’s fate at Harvard and seems to have stuck by his friend. In 2002, Summers’ first full year as president, Shleifer became the Whipple V. N. Jones professor of economics, adding an endowed chair at Harvard to his already lengthy resume. And the following year, when New York University’s Stern School of Business tried to lure him away with...
Shleifer did not respond to repeated requests for an interview last week. He’d clearly rather put the lawsuit behind him. (As one indication of that, Shleifer’s work on the Russia privatization program appears nowhere on his 11-page curriculum vitae.) This school year, Shleifer is on leave, though he’s been commuting to his office in Littauer Center most weekdays. All along, his frienship with Summers has persisted...