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Shleifer, the Jones professor of economics, emerged far less scathed in the settlement, agreeing to pay just $2 million. He had faced damages of up to $104 million for conspiring to defraud the government while advising a U.S.-funded program to privatize the Russian economy in the 1990s...
...last 40 days, I have been studying Russian at Middlebury College. It is a thoughtful program that works classes, films, and tea parties into a digestible nine weeks. One quirk is that upon arriving, you are required to sign a pledge promising only to communicate and acquire stimuli in Russian. This explains why I got busted two weeks ago. I was caught listening to a Lutheran mass—which was written in another irresponsible language, German...
Fortunately, I can say that I am learning loads. Though I’ve only been studying the language for a year, I find myself already knee-deep in insights about the Russian culture. Upon finding out, for example, that 95 Rwandan troops were being launched into Sudan to stop the genocide there, I found myself marvelously tickled...
...space walk still might have been wise, since if the crew could somehow have determined that the tiles were compromised, they might at least have hightailed it to the International Space Station--which the shuttles routinely visit anyway--and awaited a lift home aboard another shuttle or a Russian vehicle. But that possibility was foreclosed, since crews must rigorously train for a space-station docking and must carry aboard an adapter collar to make the linkup possible. Neither of those conditions was met on Columbia...
...impossible to know. The space station has long been a fiscal black hole, and with the eventual cost of the massive outpost projected to top $100 billion, NASA is not likely to abandon it without a mighty fight. The three crewmen currently on board--two Americans and a Russian--have a Soyuz re-entry vehicle aboard, and both the U.S. and Russia have the wherewithal to go fetch them if that should fail. But once they're gone, will anyone be back? The space station can't operate without the shuttle to service it, and with 40% of the tiny...