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...apartment building located--ironically--next door to the proposed University Place development. There, Harvard was again seeking to empty a building, although this time only for long enough to renovate--and substantially raise the rents. Tenants, of course, were worried, and on May 8 they filed a complaint with city Rent Board officials accusing the University of violating city law in its attempt to rid the building of occupants. The complaint was reported in the newspapers, and so was one other fact--Harvard Tenants Union (HTU) would be holding a meeting on May 11. On the agenda for that meeting...
...common for the jury-selection process to take longer than the trial itself," notes New York Supreme Court Justice Arnold Fraiman. That complaint is hard to document, but a new study by three professors at the City University of New York does show that voir dire in an average felony trial in New York City takes eight hours over the course of 2½ days. The professors estimate that New York City judges trying felony cases spend at least one-third of their time on jury selection, and that one basic reform could provide the equivalent in man-hours...
Good Humor concedes that its sandwich was developed to compete with Chipwich but denies LaMotta's other charges. Says Good Humor Attorney John Young: "It's our product, and we consider it a superior product. Their main complaint would seem to be that they don't want competition...
...right-wing Christian commander, Bashir Gemayel of the Phalangists, secretly visited Israel before Begin departed for the U.S. and then announced that he had officially dissociated himself from Israel. There was no public Israeli complaint. This could be a first step in carrying out one goal of the plan: ending Israel's active support of the Christian forces in their struggle against the Syrians, Palestinians and leftist Lebanese Muslims...
...general, research in the social sciences and in basic, rather than applied science, will probably face more unpleasant cutbacks in 1983 and 1984 as the administration seeks to balance the budget. The president and his advisers have "a very strange attitude toward social science," Davis says, voicing a complaint common among his colleagues. "They rely on all kinds of evaluations of the population and business patterns to make their policies, but they want to cut out the research that produces those evaluations," he adds. "They seem to have this notion that the study of economics is completed...