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...which in their case means skepticism of allied claims, lots of tear jerking, and talking heads who doubt American motives and prowess. "Arab commentators don't dare say Iraq will lose the war," says Musa Keilani, editor in chief of Jordan's Al-Urdon newspaper. But, says Abdullah Schleifer, a professor of TV journalism at the American University in Cairo, al-Jazeera has become "more detached and balanced" since the days after 9/11, when it portrayed Osama bin Laden as a noble Arab champion...
...Abdallah Schleifer, director of the Adham Center for television journalism at the American University in Cairo, credits bin Laden's canny, opportunistic broadening of his message. Instead of emphasizing his desire for a medieval-style caliphate under Islamic law--which discomfits many moderate Arabs--bin Laden crooned a greatest-hits medley of deeply ingrained Arab grievances--the death of thousands of Iraqi children under U.N. sanctions; U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, home of Muslim holy cities; the partition of Arab lands by Europe after World War I; and that ultimate red-meat issue, Israel. "The original bin Laden motif...
After more than three years of federal investigations, the U.S. government is suing Professor of Economics Andrei Schleifer '82 and Jonathan Hay, a former legal advisor, for seeking personal gain from their positions in a consulting project helping Russia in the transition from Communism to a market economy. The suit alleges that Schleifer and Hay, along with their wives, both financial professionals operating in the Russian capital market, profited from conflict-of-interest investments. They are also charged with using U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds for their own private operations. More importantly, the suit implicates Harvard University, alleging...
...unclear if, as the suit alleges, Harvard deliberately neglected to supervise Schleifer and Hay's work in the Russian capital markets. But the suit underscores the need to reexamine institutions that, while indirectly under the University's auspices, have a distinctly non-academic purpose. In particular, such institutions tend to drain resources that could otherwise be directed toward Harvard's core educational function...
...recent years the institute has been troubled by claims of mismanagement and a Justice Department investigation of Professor of Economics Andrei Schleifer '82 and his former colleague on HIID's Russian project, Jonathan Hay. Both were accused of using their knowledge of the Russian economy to help private investors...