Wednesday, September 27, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
Nation/World
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The Associated Press
BOSTON — The federal government sued Harvard University and four associates for $120 million yesterday, claiming that Harvard employees benefited personally from a U.S.-backed program to help post-Cold War Russia make the transition to capitalism.
Harvard economics professor Andrei Shleifer and former Harvard legal expert Jonathan Hay "abused their positions as high-level and trusted advisers to and on behalf of the United States in Russia," according to the lawsuit filed.
The government said the two men played major roles in the Harvard Institute for International Development in Russia, which received $40 million in federal funding to advise Russia on privatization, capital markets and legal reform after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Harvard closed the institute in Januarv.
The Justice Department said Shleifer, Hay, Shleifer's wife, and a woman now married to Hay, made investments and business deals in Russia that were in conflict with their duties.
Through their lawyers, the four denied any improprieties.
Anne Taylor, Harvard vice president and general counsel, said the university upheld its end of the deal.
"We are confident that, as the civil case unfolds, the court will confirm that the Harvard program significantly fostered Russian reform and that the government received its money's worth," said David Zornow. Hav's lawyer.
Among other things, the lawsuit charges that Shleifer and his wife invested $200,000 in Russian companies and $60,000 in Russian government bonds.
Hospitals boom with Y2K babies
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The Y2K bug may have been a bust. But apparently, many couples were bitten by something else last New Year's Eve.
From Los Angeles to Milwaukee, Mississippi and New York, hospitals are booming with babies nine months later.
"It's the babies 2000 month," said Sara Howley, a representative at one busy hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
National figures have yet to be tallied. But several hospitals-and
obstetricians across the country say their numbers have been up all year. And September — traditionally a big month for babies — has been particularly busy.
"It seems like everyone we run into is pregnant," said Trish Reynolds, an architect from Coventry, R.I., whose daughter Abigale was born last Wednesday and spent her first hours of life in a packed hospital nursery.
Reynolds says it is very possible that Abigale was conceived on New Year's Eve — a night she and
husband Kevin Prest decided to cozy up at home to avoid any Y2K madness. And it looks like they weren't the only ones.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center, for example, has seen an 18 percent increase in nursery admissions in September compared with the same month last year.
At WakeMed, the largest hospital in Raleigh, N.C., the staff expects to deliver about 500 babies in September — a 13.5 percent increase from September 1999.
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