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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...
...After the November 2000 elections, there were a lot of recommendations that were coming out about election reform,” he said. “One problem that we wanted to look at specifically was ballot spoilage...
...evil"--to be somewhat correct. These embarrassingly pro-U.S. sentiments caused such a stir that hard-line judge Saeed Mortazavi shut down the organization that did the polling and brought charges against the head of the news agency that published it. The survey was commissioned by the pro-reform parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, which denied that the poll was "a manipulation of public views" and asked the judiciary to drop the charges. But given that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called overtures toward the U.S. "treason and stupidity," the harsh reaction was not unexpected...
...turn Indonesia, the world's fourth most-populous country, into a failed state. Just four years after the dictator Suharto was run out of office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body...
...competitive races whose outcomes will determine which party controls the House, the Pennsylvania 17th has been a magnet for soft money and interest-group ads. Gekas, who has run unopposed in half his House campaigns, says he finds all the attention "very strange." Holden, who voted for campaign-finance reform, says he can't wait for the ban on soft money to kick in. The National Republican Congressional Committee and its Democratic rival have each committed more than $2 million to the race. United Seniors Association, a group subsidized in large part by the pharmaceutical industry, has spent about...