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October 31, 2001

Yale U.: U.S. suit against Harvard seeks $120M. (Excerpt)

Ted Diskant

"Not only did Harvard professors working in Russia allegedly take advantage of the very privatization acts they were supposed to be coordinating and advising, but according to Janine Wedel, a professor at University of Pittsburgh who has published on the subject, the very "collaboration" that Summers praised was actually closer to collusion.

"The Harvard group was working with the Chubais group at the expense of the people they were supposed to be helping. They got together and maximized their own opportunities," Wedel said.

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Wedel, the University of Pittsburgh professor, also noted it was particularly troubling that Harvard's position at "the top level of American influence" kept any government supervision from being applied too strictly.

"Because of Harvard's prestige and power, investigations never really went anywhere," she said.

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"I think it's great that universities get involved in global efforts to establish contacts overseas," Wedel said."

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