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...conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by privately investing in Russia while leading a Harvard economic reform program in the country. The Harvard program was funded by the U.S. government.Last year, Harvard agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle the suit, in addition to a $2 million payment by Shleifer himself, who has denied any wrongdoing.Knowles’ reaction to the report could be the first significant—and perhaps the most thorny—decision of his tenure as interim dean, which began Saturday. Knowles was dean of the Faculty in 2001 when Lawrence H. Summers?...
...traffic by offering new patients free cleaning, X rays and dental exams. Then it hopes they will return for higher-margin procedures such as dental implants and orthodontics. The stores have longer hours than traditional dentists' offices and are open even on weekends. They also offer patients financing and payment plans...
...resort virtually bankrupt. If there's a silver lining to what can seem an unsustainable boom, it's this: Spain's property business has generally become more professional and sophisticated during the years of plenty. It's difficult to get a mortgage anywhere in Spain without a down payment of at least 20%, says Begoña Iturriaga, head of investment at IREA, Spain's biggest independent real estate consulting company. "Developers and banks are generally pretty conservative in Spain," she says. "There'd have to be a dramatic drop in housing values to endanger banks." In fact, expertise gained...
...SHED DEBT Start with credit cards, then auto loans. Move on to your home-equity line of credit and, last, your mortgage. That isn't easy, and automatic payments can really help. So does thinking of it this way: if you have $10,000 in credit-card debt and are paying only the minimum, adding $1 a day to the payment will save you $12,615 in interest expense and retire the debt 35 years earlier, according to The Late Saver's Guidebook nefe.org) The sooner you stop paying interest, the more you will save...
...Hwang, who, in addition to fabricating the results of his research, admitted that he had harvested eggs from two of his subordinates and that he had paid other women for their eggs.Some speculated that Hwang’s subordinates might have felt pressure to donate their eggs. And payment for egg donations has since been banned by South Korea.The Harvard researchers acknowledged yesterday that in the wake of the scandal in Korea, the eyes of the entire scientific community would be on their work.“There is going to be an extra degree of scrutiny...