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...would you believe this teen-pregnancy idyll comes courtesy of something called the Family Friendly Programming Forum? The coalition of advertisers, formed to promote wholesome prime-time fare, put about a million dollars toward a WB fund for the writing of eight "family-friendly" scripts, and "Gilmore" survived. (The group hopes to strike deals with other networks.) The group had no input on the scripts, but members say they're happy with "Gilmore," even if it isn't the second coming of "Little House on the Prairie." "Would I have been happier if some of the language wasn't there...
...Forum Financial Group, based in Portland, Maine, claims that Professor of Economics Andrei N. Shleifer '82, the principal investigator of HIID, and Jonathan R. Hay, HIID general director, used their leadership roles to reap personal gain from HIID's Russian capital markets program...
After paying off the Russian officials, the complaint says, Hay was able to secure the rights to Russia's first mutual fund for Forum with Shleifer's assistance. Forum says Hay forced the company to sell its interest in the fund, enabling him to purchase it himself through a third party...
...company claims in the brief that it lost "the profits and value of The First Russian Specialized Depository [a company created in the dealings] and the financial benefit [Forum] would have received from an increase in their international business" as a result of Shleifer and Hay's alleged wrongdoing...
...acted completely appropriately in connection with Forum Financial," said David M. Zornow of the New York law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. "Everything he did was known to and approved by Russian government officials whom he was advising. It was those officials who decided what action should be taken with Forum Financial. The lawsuit is frivolous...