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...nonetheless made the front page of Friday's New York Times and amounts to the first smudge on Zedillo's squeaky-clean reputation. Congressman Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, an independent who was formerly a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, says Zedillo permitted a questionable $7 million payment to corn-flour giant Maseca, a company controlled by political supporters. Zedillo, then the senior budget official under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, allegedly indicated to the commerce ministry that he would find a way to finance the payment if it were approved, despite warnings from lower-ranking officials that...
...clear he wanted half his literary estate to go to his daughter Josephine, she did not inherit anything until 30-odd years after his death in 1961--and well after Hellman's in 1984. Hellman simply expropriated the money. Mellen's theory is that she considered it a posthumous payment on Hammett's part for not having loved her enough...
Barring a change to entirely publicly-owned universities, Harvard might restructure its payment plan to reflect better its confidence in its graduates. Why not give students their education--and their Commencement--with a contractual agreement claiming one percent of their future earnings for eternity? This reward-driven approach might give the University an incentive to feed students into high-paying jobs, but that would not be much different from the current situation...
According to Miller, Harvard and government regulations allow for a great deal of flexibility in payment options. Loans can be consolidated or deferred and, through some programs, even forgiven...