Word: complaints
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...letter dated August 20 and signed by Leslie G. Espinoza, deputy director of the division, said that her office "has made and continues to make inquiries of Harvard University regarding the 1986 election of overseers." The letter was sent to alumni who filed a formal complaint with the attorney general...
More than three months ago the alumni submitted the complaint to the attorney general charging that Harvard had unfairly campaigned against three candidates nominated by petition for a place on the election ballot for overseers. The three were running for the 30-member governing body on a platform calling on Harvard to divest of its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa...
...complaint said that a letter included in the official ballot mailing to alumni last spring constituted electioneering by the University because it urged alumni not to vote for the divestment candidates. The letter was signed by Joan T. Bok '51, then president of the overseers. But Harvard President Derek C. Bok later conceded that he had initiated the letter and that Joan Bok, who is no relation to the president, had only signed...
Increasingly, it may not be that easy. Swinney, Cronan and Shuttleworth are all suing their employers for damages as high as $15 million. Earlier this month, the U.S. Government for the first time filed a complaint on behalf of an AIDS victim. The Health and Human Services Department accused the Charlotte (N.C.) Memorial Hospital of violating the civil rights of an AIDS-afflicted registered nurse by firing the man and refusing to offer him any other work. By the time the Government acted, however, the AIDS victim had been dead five months. Indeed, no AIDS victim has yet lived long...
...swift and startling, the getaway apparently clean. Shortly after midnight one morning last April, a mysterious electronic intruder interrupted a movie on HBO with a transmission of his own. GOOD EVENING HBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT, read the message on the screen. $12.95/MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!). The complaint was directed at cable services that scramble their satellite-beamed signals so owners of home dishes can see programs only by buying a decoder and paying a monthly fee. The daring prank captured the nation's fancy but set in motion a high-tech manhunt. Last week, after a three...