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Citing two letters written to The Harvard Crimson as partial evidence, he is seeking damages for statements made by the professors prior to and following his January arrest and incarceration for suspected extortion. The charges against Afrasiabi were eventually dropped last...
Afrasiabi said in the interview that he intends to sue the Harvard University Police Department for what he describes as his "false arrest," as well as several other yetunnamed individuals...
Since his arrest, incarceration and the eventual dismissal of the case against him, Afrasiabi has authored a book about his troubles called Letter to Rushdie: Report on a Harvard Conspiracy, which, he said, has sold several hundred copies...
Meanwhile, the former security guard's lawyers engaged in a media blitz to deliver him from the same fate. As the days following the leakage of Jewell's name as a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing turned to weeks without an arrest, defense counsel Jack Martin led reporters on a hike from the place where Jewell showed officials the bomb to the pay phone from which a warning call was placed a minute and a half later. The brisk walk, presumably faster than the pace Jewell could have sustained through Olympic crowds, took four minutes. Then last week...
...Republican lawmakers who concocted the shameful version of reform that became law last week, Wilson sees both sides of the welfare dilemma. He has no quarrel with the need to do away with welfare as we knew it by moving recipients to jobs. Indeed, he considers it vital to arrest the long slide of the ghetto poor into dependence and pathology. But Wilson asks a simple question for which Clinton and the Republicans have so far provided only the vaguest of answers: Where are these jobs going to come from? He raised the question again in a memorandum that...