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...many companies are in the hot seat? More than half the 4,500 firms doing business with Iraq as part of the U.N.-administered oil-for-food program. Volcker's 623-page report, which alleges that Russian, French and Chinese companies made the lion's share of illegal payments, fingers some firms with well-known brands in the U.S., including Texaco, Siemens, DaimlerChrysler and a Belgian-based construction division of Volvo. With few exceptions, the accused have denied wrongdoing...
...city that still regards such things as dizzying novelties. Apart from books, Aksara carries Jakarta's best selection of imported music (iPods adorn the walls, allowing listeners to check out music before buying, and CDs can be sampled at listening stations). It also stocks cameras from cult Russian manufacturer Lomo as well as a range of fashionable giftware and stationery. Aksara's founder and ceo, 34-year-old Winfred Hutabarat, compares the store to Collette in Paris, or 10 Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks...
...city that still regards such things as dizzying novelties. Apart from books, Aksara carries Jakarta's best selection of imported music (iPods adorn the walls, allowing listeners to check out music before buying, and CDs can be sampled at listening stations). It also stocks cameras from cult Russian manufacturer, Lomo, as well as a range of fashionable giftware and stationery. Aksara's founder and CEO, 34-year-old Winfred Hutabarat, compares the store to Collette in Paris, or 10 Corso Como in Milan. "We are a concept store selling a range of products," he says. "But whereas those stores have...
...structures—and particularly totalitarianism—helped shape the field for decades to follow, died on Sunday, Oct. 16, at his home in Cambridge. He was 92. Moore, who was born and raised in Newport, R.I., first started working at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies—informally known as the Russian Research Center—in 1948. He officially joined the Harvard faculty in 1951 and taught until 1979. Moore published his most influential work, “Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making...
...best he could for the people he represented, but he was strong-headed,” LaBua recalled yesterday. McCombe also battled Harvard in court, when he took up the cause of a fellow security guard, Viatcheslav Abramian. Abramian complained he was discriminated against as a result of his Russian background. His complaints were dismissed in an internal investigation. In 1997, McCombe testified in the case, in which a Superior Court jury subsequently awarded Abramian $2.9 million. McCombe served as one of the last guards to be a direct employee of the University. In 2004, the University centralized its security...