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...special projects office office, to bring in a Harvard fundraising professional to oversee all K-School fundraising, and to create a committee that will review all substantial donations are badly-needed reforms which we can only hope will help attack the abuses that led to the prestige-for-payments swap. But the K-School's larger problems--a small alumni population and expanding programs--still make it vulnerable to shady donors and a little rule-bending...
...chief reason for the K-School's violation of Harvard's ethical guidelines. The report is remarkable for its failure to place the blame where it truly belongs--in the lap of K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Cavanagh sticks to the line that Allison approved the proposed swap late one Friday night without giving it "proper scrutiny." Absent from the report are the crucial facts which rip apart this shallow excuse...
...managers, Macy's entrance made perfect sense. They were reassured by Finkelstein's retailing record and his interest in keeping Federated's prime chains. By a unanimous vote, Federated directors accepted Macy's bid. But stockholders may not follow. Because Macy's offer involves cash and a future stock swap of Federated shares for shares in the new firm, * the value is unclear. The two bids are believed to be comparable, but Federated stockholders have to decide whether they want a payoff now from Campeau or bet on the fate of Macy's-Federated...
...chief of staff, Craig Fuller, met in Jerusalem with Amiram Nir, an adviser to then Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Nir was helping to arrange the arms sales to Iran. According to Fuller's detailed account of the meeting, Nir told Bush the deal was an arms-for-hostages swap, and that he was negotiating with the most "radical elements" in Iran, not with moderates. Bush told Rather he believed Nir was talking about an Israeli operation. But Fuller's summary says Nir specifically told Bush how the Israelis had taken pains to mask U.S. involvement and even described what...
...Elizabeth Dole's blind trust and to call for the Kansas senator to release income taxes for the past 10 years. Perhaps Dole is no longer the poor Dust Bowl boy he once was, but we'd like to know whether the vice president supported the arms-for-hostages swap just the same...