"There's money in this case, Watson,
if there is nothing else."
"A Scandal in Bohemia"
Arthur Zankel was a board member and investor of Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch were coordinators in the Oil For Food Program in Iraq.
I wonder what he was about to get caught having done.
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That's no way to get to Carnegie Hall.
This has NOTHING to do with the Islamic-U.N.,......move on......
He fell 9 stories but didn't die until he reached the hospital? How is that possible?
Interesting. Has he or HRW come under scrutiny or does this appear unrelated at this point?
interesting.
I wonder if it really was suicide, or whether he was pushed.
They didn't say he left a suicide note, or the reason for his alleged suicide.
Why would anyone commit suicide at 11 am?
"A Scandal in Bohemia"
Bravo! Bravo! encore?
Human Rights Watch is a sucky leftist org.
However, I bet this guy was just depressed for some reason. Sometimes I think growing older is for the wealthy to accept - an older wealthy family member has had two friends of hers (in their 80s) jump off the balconies of their very luxurious condos. It's odd, when you realize that they wouldn't have had the financial stress and other problems that the rest of us have. But it doesn't seem to be unusual.
Somebody needed a ... well, fall guy.
Carnegie Hall has had its ups and downs since it opened in 1891!
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill Carnegie Hall...
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Another oddity
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1453248/posts?page=15#15
Why is he so involved with Taiwan?
I hate how all of these oddities spider web together.
This guy, Arthur Zankel, Carnegie Hall's vice chairman and the developer of the solid financial base for this Carnegie Endowment just killed himself.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453393/posts
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=243
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By Robert Kagan, Kristol William
Publisher: Carnegie
Weekly Standard, July 26, 1999
Reprinted from the Weekly Standard, July 26, 1999
Taiwan's President Li Teng-hui sent the American foreign policy establishment into a nervous frenzy last week when he declared that Taiwan would henceforth negotiate with China as one state to another. China experts are working overtime on their op-eds chastising Taiwan for its provocative action. And the Clinton administration has already made known its displeasure with Li's statements, denouncing them as unhelpful and reiterating the administration's own agreement with Beijing's one-China policy. Meanwhile, Beijing went nuclear, literally. In a document charmingly entitled "Facts Speak Louder Than Words and Lies Will Collapse on Themselves," Beijing informed the world of what the Cox committee and other investigations had already revealed: that it has a neutron bomb, just perfect for dropping on a nearby island that China would like to occupy. This threat will no doubt cause even more anxiety among American China hands, who will blame President Li for increasing the danger of another crisis in the Taiwan Straits.
Everyone should calm down. By carefully stripping away the absurd fictions of the "one-China" policy, President Li is actually doing all concerned a big favor. After all, it is true that "facts speak louder than words." The fact is that Taiwan is and has been a sovereign state for decades, with its own government, its own army, its own flag, its own flourishing economy, and full possession of its territory. Since the early 1990s, moreover, Taiwan has been a democracy, and nothing could be clearer than that the Taiwanese people want to remain separate from mainland China as long as that territory is ruled by a dictatorship. Until there can be one democratic China, they insist, there must be two Chinas.
These facts are, of course, inconvenient for the Clinton administration, which has adhered slavishly to the fiction of "one China" embodied in over a quarter-century's worth of Sino-American agreements. Beginning with the Shanghai Communique of 1972, the United States declared its understanding that both sides of the China-Taiwan dispute agreed that there was but one China. At the time of the Shanghai Communique, this was true in an odd sort of way. Both the Communist government of Beijing and the authoritarian government of Chiang Kaishek's Kuomintang agreed that there was one China, and they both insisted it was theirs. The United States used this cute "one-China" formulation as a way of avoiding the issue. Anyway, the Cold War was on, and U.S. officials believed they needed China's help in containing the Soviet Union. If the price was a certain ambiguity and even some deception on the subject of Taiwan, so be it.
Blah blah blah
Whoa. I wonder if the cops are aware of that...
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