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...experiencing motion sickness as they try to grapple with new ideas like demokratizatsiya and privatizatsiya or attempt to figure out what makes brokery different from raketeery. (It is instructive that the Russian language has no words of its own for these borrowed concepts.) Still others shout for Yeltsin to crack the whip and get the old nags moving faster. But however bumpy the ride, if reform is really to take hold, every Russian must somehow arrive at an internal alteration of his or her mental outlook, a fresh landscape of the mind, to suit the new system. In the meantime...
...Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is conducting comprehensive audits of several universities nationwide in an effort to crack down on potential abuses of their non-profit, tax-exempt status...
...panel, titled "The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack," featured Margaret Burnham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., bell hooks, Glen Loury, Eugene Rivers and Cornel R. West '74. Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah moderated the debate...
Although some non-U.S. companies surely do evade American taxes, the IRS's previous efforts to crack down on violators have borne relatively little fruit. Earlier this month the Japanese electronics giant Matsushita, which sells products in the U.S. under the Panasonic and Quasar brand names, reached an agreement with the IRS to pay a settlement in that kind of dispute. The amount was a mere $4.8 million. At least 47 Japanese companies in the U.S. have been involved in similar cases within the past five years. Many such companies are now taking Matsushita's accommodating approach, which will...
...Justice Department and the FBI investigate the killing of Malice Green by police on Nov. 5. Green was stopped by two white cops, who then allegedly beat him with flashlights while other cops, one black and four white, watched or participated. Police said Green had parked near a suspected crack cocaine house...