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...policies he proposed, and Shleifer has since been sued by the U.S. government. He never makes more than oblique references to his work in Russia after the 1997 currency crisis, a point that will surely disappoint readers looking for the defendant’s perspective in the ongoing scandal...
...both Innate-gate and this fresh scandal, thorough examination of the transcripts of Summers’ remarks has blunted, and in some cases contradicted, criticisms. Sure, The Crimson will cover it, the Drudge Report might pick it up, and the president’s office might get a few nasty e-mails. But people like me both in the student body and the Faculty won’t even have the opportunity to be angry at Mass. Hall for seeming secretive, and those who rely on hearsay and misinformation for their anti-Summers ammunition, as many did in Innate-gate...
Such purity of conduct is hard to maintain in a permissive era. In the mid-'70s, West Point was rocked by a cheating scandal; 152 cadets were dismissed or re signed after plagiarizing on a take-home exam. Whole companies of cadets had gone "cool on honor," an internal investigation found, in part because the honor code had become "trivialized," used as a tool to enforce petty regulations...
...county medical examiner in Florida, it seems, will no longer be supplying the brains--or more accurately, pieces of the brains--of executed prisoners to a University of Florida researcher for her studies on the criminal mind. News of this exchange has stirred a small scandal. The prisoners, it turns out, never consented to be so studied. But the deeper question is what could the study have possibly hoped to find...
...most famous thing Kofi Annan has ever written is the notorious fax in which he explicitly forbade United Nations troops from interfering in the Rwandan genocide. In addition to looking the other way through an ever-growing series of genocides, Annan is presiding over the oil-for-food scandal, one of the largest humanitarian crimes in history, and accusations of multiplying cases of rape and pedophilia committed by U.N. troops the world over. To dismiss Havel as a no-name lightweight compared to Annan, as you do in your otherwise well-reasoned editorial supporting John Lithgow...