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...Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime,” Dershowitz said—a quotation he attributed to Soviet spymaster Lavrenti Beria. “Clearly someone was looking to pin something on the most prominent liberal constitutional scholar in the country...
DIED. HARVEY WHEELER, 85, political scientist who in 1962 co-authored the best-selling novel Fail-Safe,about an accidental nuclear attack on the Soviet Union; in Carpinteria, Calif. A native of Waco, Texas, he was also the author of political-science books and, as a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, did pioneering research on health care...
...with that show's star, Liza Minnelli, who, in a 1977 Martin Scorsese film, introduced their omnipresent big-city anthem, New York, New York. DIED. HARVEY WHEELER, 85, political scientist who in 1962 co-authored the bestselling Cold War novel Fail-Safe, about an accidental nuclear attack on the Soviet Union; in Carpinteria, California. The Texas native also authored political science books and did pioneering research on health care as well as on aging. DIED. RAYMOND MARCELLIN, 90, conservative French politician who, as Interior Minister under President Charles de Gaulle, led the tough crackdown on the 1968 student protests...
...There’s plenty of it, infrastructure is reasonable and Islamic separatist movements are not as formidably organized as they are in Saudi Arabia or Iraq. Then again, these places are political and environmental disaster zones in their own rights, replete with legacy pollution from the Soviet era and rapacious governments that are only too keen to make you pay for their mistakes. One typical experience this summer had me constructing a financial model to price an oilfield with a $200 million liability for legacy pollution. The variable in the model that covered this was “theft?...
...Germany's lowest. "It's clear we will never return to the industrial city of the past," says Halle mayor Ingrid Haussler. But the two buildings demolished are actually signs of hope--and of what's starting to go right for Halle and Germany. Once used as Soviet barracks, they were knocked down to make room for a sprawling $365 million science-and-technology center taking shape on the city's western edge. Sixty companies and 19 educational institutions--active in such fields as biotech, nanotech and environmental science--have settled there so far, and 2,500 new jobs have...