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...THURSDAY...
...Polish government awarded Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, director of the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID), with its Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Thursday, for helping the nation establish its post-Communist economy...
...Thursday's ceremony at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C., Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz presented the award to Sachs and David Lipton, who also served as an economic advisor during those years...
Slobodan Milosevic may look like a pushover compared with some of Richard Holbrooke's Washington adversaries. A New York Times report Thursday that the administration's U.N. ambassador-nominee faces new charges of ethics violations concerning business contacts with the U.S. embassy in South Korea could signal "a behind-the-scenes power struggle," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. The Times report follows an earlier Washington Post report suggesting that the ethics inquiry into Holbrooke's ties with U.S. officials while working for Credit Suisse First Boston was on the verge of clearing the highly regarded diplomat for nomination...
...Hollywood are collected up there, as in an appendix, inflamed and waiting to burst," he says, quick to add that "that's true of most festivals, not just Sundance." This year the buzz is swarming around Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune," starring Glenn Close, which opens the festival Thursday evening, as well as Allison Anders' new feature, "Sugar Town," in which former Duran Duran member John Taylor portrays a washed-up rock star. No word yet on whether any of the entries involves two guys in a car and girl on the road...