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...Forum Financial Group, based in Portland, Maine, claims that Professor of Economics Andrei N. Shleifer '82, the principal investigator of HIID, and Jonathan R. Hay, HIID general director, used their leadership roles to reap personal gain from HIID's Russian capital markets program...
...suit, the company contends that Hay and Shleifer used federal funds allocated through HIID to bribe Russian government officials with "cash, no-show jobs, exorbitant and unjustified compensation and benefits, and exorbitant and unjustified housing allowances." The Russian officials, the suit contends, deposited these payments in foreign bank accounts to evade taxation...
...Europe. When bombing broke out in Bosnia, Bush did not leap to support it, as he claimed, but said at the time he was "praying," before eventually lending an equivocal voice. He called Nigeria an important "continent." And he may have created a minor international incident by accusing former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin of pocketing IMF loans, without any solid evidence. Gore let it go, but Chernomyrdin didn't. He warned that "Mr. Bush Jr. should be getting ready for a trial...
...been losing credibility with Arafat--something that opened the door to a whole host of other diplomats. As a result, when last week's fighting began to look truly out of control, everyone from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov rushed to toss in his 2[cents]. The diplomacy that followed was chaotic and--for the White House at least--downright frustrating. The heavy lifting of trying to bring the two sides together was handled by Annan, who spent a good part of the week dashing from meeting...
...with new immigrants from Russia. The audience is made up of people who came to our country and found themselves in a reality that is strange to them. To dispel the tension, I open with a discussion about Tolstoy's "War and Peace," which describes the war of the Russian people against the invading Napoleon. Here in our small country we do not have the wide spaces that would allow a retreat from Moscow. The tension is broken, the audience listens to what I say, which is translated into Russian...