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...government’s case hinges on allegations Shleifer and Hay broke agreements Harvard made with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that funded a University-run economic reform program in Russia in the mid-1990s...
...unexpected admission last Wednesday that North Korea has been operating a secret nuclear weapons program since the mid-1990s, in direct violation of agreements with the U.S. and others, has forced the Bush PR machine far from its comfort zone. Bush was still conjuring apparitions of an axis of evil as late as two weeks ago, as if all of America’s earthly enemies were merely limbs of a single monster. “Terror cells and outlaw regimes building weapons of mass destruction,” he explained in his case against Iraq...
...Kuwait in 1991.) Complicating the fight is the fact that the spooks don't want to overlook evidence on Iraq--as they did with al-Qaeda--so they are trying to turn over every stone. For example, a top Iraqi intelligence official visited bin Laden in Sudan in the mid-1990s, an intelligence source tells TIME. There is also more evidence that al-Qaeda operatives who turned up recently in Baghdad may have been plotting chemical-weapons attacks on U.S. soil. "As we peel the onion," says another senior U.S. intelligence official, "we continue to find things that indicate people...
...while the percentage of black students accepting admissions offers from Harvard reached a peak of roughly 74 percent in the mid-1990s, McGrath Lewis said black student yields have been declining fairly steadily ever since...
...Muslim population makes it the world's largest Muslim nation - stretching from southern Thailand and Malaysia all the way to the southern islands of the Philippines eventually found their way into a global "jihad" movement when some went to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s. By the mid-1990s, Jemaah is believed to have made common cause with al-Qaeda. Now that the U.S. offensive in Afghanistan has cost the bin Laden network its sanctuaries and scattered its leadership, security officials believe al-Qaeda may become more reliant on the independent organizational structures of allied groups all over...