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...decision has been reached on whether to take legal action against the University for its role in the election last April, said Chris Villa, a spokesman for the Attorney General. Villa said the Public Charities Division--which handles complaints against nonprofit institutions such as Harvard--is continuing to collect information in the case...
...Seidman, who won election despite considerable and unethical opposition from the University itself. If outside candidates prove successful this year as well, a precedent for dissent and minority representation will be set. Harvard should discontinue the practice of nominating "official" candidates for the board, allowing any interested alumni to collect the necessary signatures and face the scrutiny of the electorate rather than the administration. A vote for the outside candidates equals a vote against the Corporate practice of in-house nomination...
...several regional power- marketing administrations, which sell electricity to local utilities. Reagan is putting forward a plan in which the Government would sell $8 billion worth of the loans it has made to students, small businesses and other debtors. Private investment companies would buy the loans and then collect the interest and principal payments...
...seems only natural that Jack Delaney, 40, a former jewel thief who has done time at a Louisiana penitentiary, should wind up working at the New Orleans mortuary owned by his brother-in-law Leo. Why is it, Leo wonders aloud, that every time they get a call to collect a corpse from the National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Jack calls in sick? Is he afraid of leprosy or what? The next thing Jack knows, he is driving the firm's hearse to a local soup kitchen and picking up a Roman Catholic nun who will oversee...
...piety is very far from passivity. In 1984, returning to Mount St. Vincent College to collect an honorary degree, the mild, once bookish college girl surprised her former classmates with a forceful address. "Faith," she told them, "is not simply a patience which passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit which bears things -- with resignation, yes, but above all, with blazing serene hope...