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With the East European protection rackets acting as a replacement criminal-justice system, they defined what was legal and what illegal. And legal was anything that brought in a profit - so along with oil, food, furniture and cars, markets were established in drugs, caviar, trafficked women and counterfeit cigarettes; the networks would bring to market anything that would sell. By the mid-1990s, the U.S. government had recognized that something pretty ugly was underway in the postcommunist world. Jon Winer, the architect of the Clinton Administration's anti-organized-crime strategy, traces its development. "In '93-'94 I started working...
...members’ publications in an online database, the content of which will be available to members of the public, according to a statement. Members of the faculty will have the choice to opt out and to distribute their articles on their own Web sites, providing they do not profit from the publications. In February, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences made national headlines when it passed a similar policy, while in April, the National Institute of Health required that the research it sponsors be made publicly available through its centralized research depository. Law School Dean Elena Kagan praised...
...that commit them to serve and better the community, callings that shouldn’t be reduced to assuage the problems the state government can’t handle. Perhaps this proposal would have been more amenable if the money taken by the state went directly to struggling non-profit organizations around the Commonwealth or other salutary areas. The fact that this revenue mechanism would have only been one of many recent ploys to help the government’s economic problems (like casinos are) then the justification loses all merit. Universities across the country, regardless of endowment size, should...
...that "socially responsible" and "green" funds have prospered in recent years by avoiding companies that sell tobacco or pollute, the surprise since 9/11 is that more money has not flowed into terror-free investing. Advocates argue it is a nonviolent way for Americans to confront terrorism and maybe even profit from the fight...
...Leone's conflict diamonds, is how the building is also evidence of what the country can do for diamonds. "The way people feel about diamonds has to be the way they think about our company," says Penny. "We have to be a role model. We want to make a profit. To do that, we have to behave in a way that makes a contribution to the country. It's benign self-interest...