Bom dia!
 

Skip had other attractive options besides Princeton. Remember the advice, Go west young man!
 

Skip is going to go to the place that lets him spend a great deal of money on whatever he wants... expensive art for his walls, expensive dinners at top restaurants, hugely expensive hotel rooms all over the world...all on the FAS' dime. If his colleagues only knew what has really gone on in the last 15 years!
 

Putin was speaking to a meeting of economists when he referred to Harvard economist Shleifer--

Then Putin swiftly shifted the subject – from one secret service to another and apparently from one Harvard economist to another. “There is a criminal case currently under way in the United States involving those who had been involved with privatizations in our country. It turned out that, firstly, they were CIA agents and, secondly, they lined their pockets at our expense.” he said.

He appeared to refer to Harvard consultants on Russian privatization, economist Andrei Shleifer and his assistant Jonathan Hay, who were charged with defrauding the U.S. Agency for International Development by investing privately while working as USAID-paid Russian government consultants. Until Saturday, only fringe Russian press such as ultra-nationalist Zavtra and anti-establishment The Exile, had run the story, citing former Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Polevanov and unnamed FSB sources that Hay had been a CIA agent.

“We are not particularly spinning it, but it’s a fact,” Putin said without naming the alleged agents. Angela Stent said afterwards that the comment was not quite clear to the Americans in the room.
 

To Anon 11:57:

Do you know how to cite text quoted from other sources? Should you not be doing this?

And, what is the relationship between your posting and the header of this blog? Are you proposing to change the subject or just looking to start a new blog thread?
 

As for Skip Gates, there is also the tree in front of Barker Center in memory of his parents. Would he transplant it to Princeton?