Word: moscow
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Jonathan Hay, the former director of HIID's Moscow office, and Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer '82 are accused of using their work for HIID in Russia for personal enrichment...
...problems began in America--not in Salt Lake, but in Los Angeles. The 1976 Montreal Games had dutifully lost millions of dollars, and the 1980 Moscow Games, boycotted by the U.S., didn't make a ruble. The Winter Games, always staged in nice little Currier & Ives villages, had seldom turned a profit. Therefore, naturally, no sane city wanted to play host to the Games. Then, in 1984, Peter Ueberroth and his Los Angeles organizing committee put on a splashy, TV-friendly, penny-squeezing Olympics that netted $220 million. Suddenly suitors were turning handsprings before the I.O.C., each performing citius, altius...
...MOSCOW: Good thing the Russians see her as Ms. Moneybags: Madeleine Albright got a rough ride from Moscow mayor and presidential candidate Yuri Luzkhov Monday, but found Russia's government pliable by comparison. "She's asking for Moscow to accept unpalatable positions on issues ranging from missile treaties to Kosovo, but the Russians have their backs to the wall," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "The IMF money on which their budget depends has been frozen, which makes it essential to play along with U.S. requests...
...movie, therefore, makes not much more of Jackie's unusual sexual requirements (and her relatives' bland acquiescence in them) than it does of the fact that she sends her dirty laundry home from Moscow for her mother to wash. Genius, you see, must be accommodated on many levels. This is because the romantic view of the creative life has long since taught us that prodigious talent is always delicately balanced, always in danger of paying a tragic price for its high-strung ways, always in need of indulgence...
...Primakov will try to scare them with images of a cataclysmic economic meltdown. But that may no longer work. "The IMF knows it's unlikely ever to find the kind of money that would be needed to pull Russia out of the hole," says Quinn-Judge. And with Moscow showing no sign of undertaking the structural reforms demanded as a condition for IMF aid, it's not inclined to throw good money after bad. Which may leave Primakov to make up his budget shortfall at the Xerox machine...