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...late July Yurchenko arrived in Rome from Moscow and was driven to Villa Abamelek, the Soviet embassy compound on the city's outskirts. On the morning of July 28, according to original accounts, Yurchenko told his guards he wanted to go by himself to the Vatican museums, less than a mile away. He never returned. Though stories have circulated about how Yurchenko disappeared, including an account carried this month by Actuel, a French magazine, which claims that Yurchenko met his CIA contact in the Sistine Chapel, U.S. officials refuse to reveal details. The State Department, however, reiterated last week that...
...establish partnerships with elite schools and institutions around the world. One of the CEA recommendations is that Harvard science departments work to develop opportunities at laboratories and field stations around the world—the same should be said for all the Harvard departments. Harvard currently has a villa in Italy and a laboratory in Chile (and a forest in New Zealand). More property would be better, as it would provide students with interesting housing and research opportunities across the world. This investment in international property should be matched by one in international academia. Harvard must not continue to pawn...
...corner of his office, which occupies the second floor of a century-old Italianate villa just blocks from where he grew up, Feng keeps a porcelain jar full of rice-paper scrolls so that he can practice his calligraphy between deals. On weekends he studies oil painting with his 7-year-old daughter. He hopes that by the time she grows up, he will have become chairman of China's largest gold mine?a fitting aspiration for a man with a knack for spotting buried treasure...
...corner of his office, which occupies the second floor of a century-old Italianate villa just blocks from where he grew up, Feng keeps a porcelain jar full of rice-paper scrolls so that he can practice his calligraphy between deals. On weekends he studies oil painting with his 7-year-old daughter. He hopes that by the time she grows up, he will have become chairman of China's largest gold mine--a fitting aspiration for a man with a knack for spotting buried treasure. --By Susan Jakes/Shanghai
...Pakistani government and military establishment Khan's allies are. Khan was too hot to handle, so even making him the fall guy for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets was out of the question. Instead, President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan and put him under house arrest in his sumptuous villa. This for an act of treason so blatant and outrageous that it has few parallels in any nation, authoritarian or not. Khan's pardon was part of a cover-up. Rama Prem Freiburg, Germany Khan has confessed to leaking Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The startling...