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...from 1995 to 1999 and departed Harvard last spring for Columbia, filed a deposition condemning the transactions and stating that, had he been director of HIID in 1994, he never would have allowed such violations to occur. Indeed, the apparent conflicts of interest surrounding HIID seem most regrettable. The scandal surrounding HIID resulted in the dissolution of an institute and the firing of Hay. There may have also been damage done to the Russian economy—ironic, as Harvard was brought into Russia to help address issues of corruption...
After former president George Bush delivered a speech in China in 1998, a bright young American student stood up to ask a question. Why, Patrice Lumumba Ford wanted to know, had charges against Oliver North concerning the Iran-contra scandal been dropped during Bush's term in office nearly a decade earlier? Bush was taken aback by the directness of the question, according to several people present at the Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center...
...Voice of the Faithful, a lay group that grew out of dismay over the church's handling of the sexual abuse scandal in Boston, called the Vatican's rejection of the Dallas charter "deeply troubling." Mike Emerton, spokesman for the group, said the response "shows they have no understanding of the depth of this problem." Emerton said it was unclear why the Vatican required more time to "reflect" on the charter. "Why they need extra time to reflect on a document they've had for four months is confusing," he said. "Rome hasn't gotten the point yet." He called...
...joke, which did not mention the sex scandal, the Church had decided to sponsor “Catholic Idol: the Search for Piety...
...same time as he was chairing Enron’s finance committee as it suspended ethical standard after ethical standard, he was, ironically, also chairing Harvard’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Sadly enough, Winokur could have kept chairing that committee for years longer if the Enron scandal had broken later or HarvardWatch, an independent group of students and alumni, had been less persistent about pointing out his close ties to Enron...