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...Attorney’s office contends that Shleifer had engaged in unethical behavior and breached agreements with the government by investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian companies while he was managing U.S. government aid, which was being funneled to the Russian government through HIID...
...ECGI board is concerned, this was not discussed,” Becht said of Shleifer’s Russian investments. “I don’t think his personal affairs will be a problem...
...working under the assumption that anyone who would buy this book already owns the previous collection, and won't mind flipping through it to find what's been omitted. And Wilson the amateur linguist, who had a habit of sprinkling his letters with bits of Greek, Hebrew and Russian, would hardly have approved of the decision not to print his use of other languages in their original orthography. The editors are also not above a little politically correct editorializing in the footnotes, as witness their comment on Wilson's "totally unjustifiable anger" with the IRS, the subject...
Ever since he was a teenager, more interested in producing movies than in the prospect of running his family's liquor empire, Edgar Bronfman Jr. has faced his share of skeptics. One of the first, in fact, was his grandfather Samuel, a Russian immigrant to Canada who advanced from Prohibition bootlegger to spirits magnate, owner of a portfolio that included Chivas Regal Scotch and Captain Morgan rum. In a mid-1990s documentary about the family, Edgar Jr. recalled his grandfather saying, "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. I'm worried about the third generation." Such doubts didn't seem...
...corrupt state and chaotic economy. Why suck up to such a man? Talbott--a former editor at TIME who was a key policymaker on Russia throughout the Clinton years, ending up as Deputy Secretary of State--makes a convincing case for taking Yeltsin seriously. In his telling, Clinton's Russian policy was motivated above all by realism. Clinton and his team knew that Yeltsin wasn't perfect, and at times they may have let their hopes "get out in front of reality," as Clinton said to Talbott. But they had a practical optimism about Russia's prospects, even if they...