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...biggest problem may be in deciding how to handle all the borderline illegality the task force will find. "How do you separate drug money from capital-flight money?" asks one of the mavens. "It will be more than drug money we come up with, and what happens when we stumble over a really major company and hold up its dirty linen? Maybe the banks will start turning in the narcotics people rather than lose their biggest customers...
...biggest push could come from the provisions of the Kerry Amendment to the 1988 anti-drug abuse act. The law requires the Treasury Secretary to negotiate bilateral agreements on money-laundering detection and prevention with all U.S. trading partners. Countries that refuse to participate or that negotiate in bad faith could conceivably be excluded from the U.S. banking network and clearinghouses. Yet in hearings earlier this year, Assistant Treasury Secretary Salvatore Martoche indicated that the Bush Administration is reluctant to enforce the law zealously for fear of hampering the U.S. banking industry...
...perhaps fitting that the biggest event of the decade was the ostentatious party Harvard threw for itself on the occasion of its 350th birthday in 1986. Prince Charles and luminaries of all stripes were on hand for the week-long festivities in September, as were angry protesters, who disrupted a black-tie dinner for big donors to call attention to Harvard's investments in South Africa...
...biggest changes made, according to the leaders of campus women's groups, were the introduction last March of a student-run foot patrol escort service, SafeStreets, and the acquisition of another car this year for the administration-sponsored escort service...
...more lasting solution could be found in a loan forgiveness program--similar to the one in place at Columbia--for women and minority students attending graduate school. According to the University, the small number of women and minorities with Ph.D.'s is the biggest obstacle to a more diverse faculty. By removing some of the economic burdens of college graduates through loan forgiveness, the University can go a long way toward increasing the size of the pool of qualified minority and women scholars...