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...Institute for Community College Research at SUNY/ Broome Community College in Binghamton, N.Y. But Miami Dade president Eduardo Padrón argues that "it is unfair to restrict community colleges to that traditional role and allow only the four-year colleges or research universities to teach more élite students." Having these more ambitious scholars on campus, he says, creates a "motivational role model" for the rest of his 160,000 students...
...internal use, officers would have had no reason to fabricate them. He insists all the documents in his institute are 100% genuine. "They reflect the truth," he says. Niezabitowska's case and others have been seized upon by some opposition parties to assail Poland's postcommunist political élite, both ex-communists and ex-dissidents. The rightist Law and Justice Party is pressing for a "complete lustration" of all state and city officials, professors, company directors and even editors. Many observers, even sympathetic ones, say Niezabitowska's biggest mistake was not bringing this incident up when she was appointed government...
...unregulated, lustration, the Hungarian think tank Political Capital released its own list of 60 alleged collaborators last month, the first of what Krisztián Szabados, the organization's co-director, says are 150,000 Hungarians known as agents or informers. The aim is "to pressure the political élite" to open the files and "end the political games that have been poisoning Hungarian society for 15 years," Szabados says. "We want to finish with this story." In the past, names have been selectively released for political advantage. It was an opposition newspaper which, in 2002, first printed news that...
...recipient of foreign investment. But all that cash isn't drifting in on global trade winds. Matching a capital-starved Shanghai manufacturer with a New York City financier requires an expert middleman, someone with Chinese-market savvy and an ability to bridge cultural divides. Here TIME profiles an élite group we have dubbed China's Rainmakers: pioneering venture capitalists, investment bankers and other dealmakers who helped send money to the Middle Kingdom and open the country to the world...
...Holdings, the U.S. investment firm that bought out and successfully relaunched the bankrupt Long-Term Credit Bank as Shinsei Bank, there is a Carrefour, the French retailer that is withdrawing from the country after just five years. Still, Katz sees slow progress. "For a long time, the Japanese élite and public had negative attitudes toward foreign investment, fearing it would mean loss of control. Today, foreign direct investment is more acceptable, as are foreign buyout funds-and now foreign CEOs...