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...Employees' Retirement System, General Motors and Verizon. As a Refco insider (several Lee executives are on the Refco board), Lee and the underwriters who took the company public may be on the hook for shareholder losses. "We have a history of taking forceful action in response to misbehavior," says Alan Hevesi, New York State comptroller, whose retirement system invested $36 million in Refco through Lee and others. Lee declined to comment. Bennett's lawyer, Gary Naftalis, reiterated what he had already said in court: "We think the government jumped...
...created? One idea would be to arbitrarily set the lower limit for a planet at about 2,000 km (1,250 miles) in diameter, which would let Pluto remain a planet and make 2003 UB313 one as well, but keep the rest of the riffraff out. "Pluto," says Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and a member of the IAU working group, "has historically been considered a planet, and so any definition we adopt really must include it." Another proposal would drop the limit to 1,000 km, letting Quaoar and Sedna into the club...
...semester, Harvard has brought in Germany’s top medieval archaeologist, Joachim Henning, as a visiting professor in history to teach the first-ever undergraduate course in medieval archaeology at Harvard—History 1140, “History of Medieval Archaeology.” Another visiting professor, Alan R. Cooper of Colgate University, is teaching History 1101, “Medieval Europe,” this semester.Maureen E. Boyle ’08, who is in Henning’s class, said this is an ideal time to study medieval history.“It?...
...demand that the University devote funds and political support to help overturn the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.At a rally in front of HLS’ Harkness Commons, students joined Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and two military veterans to call for more backing from University President Lawrence H. Summers in efforts to repeal the policy, which prevents gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces.In a speech to the crowd, Dershowitz reprimanded the University for not doing more...
...said. “That’s one action in the last three out of four years…that’s not a very good track record.”The rally will feature three speakers—Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, Vietnam veteran Nathaniel G. Butler ’68, and former U.S. Marine Anuradha K. Bhagwati.Butler, who also chairs the Harvard Lesbian and Gay Caucus’s military taskforce, said he would be “personally delighted” if Summers publicly opposed the amendment.“I think...