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Last week’s release of previously unseen photographs and videotapes from the U.S. Army prison at Abu Ghraib has thrust the putrid details of the 2003 prisoner-abuse scandal there back into the global consciousness. The new images make many of the older ones look tame in comparison, depicting prisoners tortured with dogs, cells and hallways streaked with blood, a prisoner forced to perform self-sodomy, and the grizzled beaten body of a dead prisoner...
Some professors have cried foul over Summers’ conduct regarding the investment scandal implicating Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, who is a longtime friend of Summers...
...Kirby resigned amid reports in The Crimson that he was fired by Summers. Then, at a Feb. 7 meeting of the full Faculty, Summers said he was “not able to make any informed response” to questions about his role in a federal fraud scandal involving his longtime friend, Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer...
...Arts and Sciences. The monthly meetings between Summers and Harvard faculty were never love-ins, but sources tell Time.com that the most recent meeting, on February 7th, turned into an unusually bitter showdown, not just over Kirby?s departure, but also over new allegations tying Summers to an old scandal...
...issue is Summers? handling of a Russian fraud scandal involving a close friend and colleague, Harvard Economist Andrei Shleifer. Shleifer and Harvard were found liable for combined penalties of nearly $30 million in 2004 after they were charged with defrauding a U.S. government program designed to help Harvard economists privatize the Russian economy in the 1990s. The scandal has long been considered one of Harvard?s darker hours, but a new 28-page expos? by investigative reporter David McClintick, published in the January 2006 issue of Institutional Investor magazine, brought new heat on Summers, whom the article describes as going...