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...recovered only a sliver of their pre-August stakes. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating whether Long Term Capital violated securities laws by withholding information on its financial health. Moreover, the entire debacle may prompt long-term changes in the hedge-fund industry: Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is examining whether such funds should be more closely regulated. --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York...
Instead Washington is straddling two positions. It says gross violators of human rights should be punished, but at the same time the views of the democratic government of Chile should be respected. And Chile insists that Pinochet should be sent home. Beyond that, says State Department spokesman James Rubin, "we have no view as to the merits of the case...
Speakers from outside Harvard include Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph W. Ralston and Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley...
...dirty little secret, General Augusto Pinochet is haunting Washington's corridors of power. "The U.S. government is deeply divided over what policy to pursue in response to Pinochet's arrest," says TIME correspondent Adam Zagorin. "Right now that policy is in flux." On Monday State Department spokesman James Rubin promised the U.S. would "declassify and make public as much information as possible" over human rights abuses in Chile under Pinochet; then on Wednesday he said that meant only that the U.S. would "review" the those documents. Rubin's shuffling is reflective of a fierce debate in the State Department...
...festival was in its third day when I arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts' Emerson Theatre to watch four short films by students of the Ma'ale School of Communication, Art of Film and Television in Jerusalem. What followed a brief introduction by festival director Sara Rubin and former Ma'ale School director Udi Lion was a revelation told in softly lilting Hebrew of aspects of Jewish culture rarely added to the American salad bowl...