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...Hale and Dorr, Boston's largest law firm, has already offered to handle the legal work for the endowment free of charge, Link said...
...senior year of the class of 1823 brought to a climax their animosity, their pranks and their reckless insubordination. The "Blacks" continued to inform on these antics, and the rest of the class harrassed and vexed this moralistic minority. On March 10, 1823, "A large shower bath belonging to Dorr [a "Black"] was taken from the fourth story of Stoughton, and having been filled with wood, etc. was burnt at midnight in the middle of the College Yard in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Blacklist...
Kennecott agreed to hand over its 2.8 million shares of Curtiss-Wright, plus $168 million in cash, in exchange for Curtiss-Wright's Dorr-Oliver subsidiary, a maker of pollution-control and other equipment; Curtiss-Wright returned 4.8 million shares of Kennecott to the copper company, and Berner and two other Curtiss-Wright directors resigned from Kennecott's board of directors. With their proxy fights at last over, Barrow and Berner can now get back to their real businesses of digging copper and building jet engines. -By Julie Connelly. Reported by Frederick Ungoheuer/New York
...insoluble puzzle." On the Run, by Marty Liquori and Skip Myslenski (Morrow; $9.95), shows the great miler and distance runner to be as dedicated and self-critical as every top athlete must be. But Liquori is more instructive on television. Running Back, by Steve Heidenreich and Dave Dorr (Hawthorn; $11.95), is nondramatic; it describes how Heidenreich slogged his way back to health after an auto accident in 1976 nearly killed...
...which daring practitioners drive out the more conservative ones. The reason is obvious: clients want to pay as little as possible to the tax collector without actually breaking the law. Although most lawyers deny it, some firms charge clients a percentage of taxes saved. Boston's Hale and Dorr, having saved a client $4.5 million in taxes, submitted a bill for $760,000 for 2,000 hours' work ?a cool $380 an hour. A court upheld the bill...