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...power, she did almost nothing to help the liberal causes she espoused so enthusiastically to the Western media. Instead, it was under her watch that Pakistan's secret service, the ISI, helped arm the Taliban and facilitate its rise to power in Afghanistan. And she did nothing to rein in the agency's disastrous policy of training Islamist jihadis to do the ISI's dirty work elsewhere. As a young correspondent covering the conflict in Kashmir in the late 1980s and early '90s, I saw how, during her premiership, Pakistan sidelined the Kashmiris' secular resistance movement and instead gave...
...endowment officials became a heated issue after two of HMC’s top officials, David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, each earned more than $30 million in 2003. When the salaries became public, some alumni threatened to reduce their donations to Harvard if the University failed to rein in the high compensation...
...this year invested in the Blackstone Group shortly before the big New York City private-equity firm went public. But Blackstone's share price has sunk 38% below its June 2007 listing price of $31, costing CIC more than $1 billion. That pratfall appears to have prompted CIC to rein in its ambitions. Instead of making splashy investments in the U.S. and Europe, the fund is now looking closer to home. It recently bought into Central Huijin Investment Co., a government agency with stakes in several of China's biggest state-run banks and brokerages, and will reportedly plunk...
...issue after two of HMC's top officials, David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, each earned more than $30 million in 2003. When the salaries became public, a group of seven alumni from the Class of 1969 threatened to reduce their donations to Harvard if the University failed to rein in the high compensation...
...much fanfare in the Blackstone Group, the big New York private-equity firm, right before Blackstone went public. But Blackstone's share price has sunk 35% below its June 2007 listing price of $31, costing CIC more than $1 billion. The pratfall appears to have prompted CIC to rein in its ambitions. Instead of splashy investments in the U.S. and Europe, the fund is now looking closer to home. It recently invested in Central Huijin Investment Co., a government agency with stakes in several of China's biggest state-run banks and brokerages, and will reportedly plunk another $66 billion...