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- WORLD, Page 37Yep, There's Another One
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- Speed up, urges Dr. Jeffrey Sachs.
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- Slow down, advises Dr. Jeffrey Sachs.
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- A small army of Americans is rushing to help the Russian
- economy. Some are samaritans; some are charlatans. Many are
- looking to make a quick buck; others are searching for
- adventure. There are even two people named Dr. Jeffrey Sachs.
- Harvard's Jeffrey D. Sachs, 37, is better known. But there is
- also Jeffrey A. Sachs, 38, a dentist who was once a
- social-policy adviser to New York Governors Hugh Carey and Mario
- Cuomo. Jeffrey A. runs Ecolink, a New York City-based project
- that is trying to show the Russians how to use public finance
- to build an AIDS hospital in Moscow and grain-storage
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- The presence of Jeffrey A. and Jeffrey D. on the same turf
- causes both confuand irritation. The Boston Globe in June
- published an op-ed piece by Jeffrey A. that Jeffrey D.'s
- Cambridge colleagues thought he had written. The paper lathad
- to print a clarification. Officials at the Institute of USA and
- Canada Studies in Moscow have taken to calling them Jeffrey I
- and Jeffrey II.
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- The two have diametrically opposed views of how to cure
- the Russian econoWhile the economist draws on his experience in
- Bolivia and Poland to urge radical reforms, the dentist draws on
- his work on New York City welfare programs to say the Russians
- must go slow.
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- New York's Jeffrey is bemused by the nominal confusion,
- saying it's "an annoyance more than a real problem." Harvard's
- Jeffrey, though, is not laughing. He says this has become a
- sideshow that distracts from serious matters at hand.
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