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Jackson's case came to an eight-day non-jury trial last May and June. The B-School's compliance has been at issue since testimony revealed that 10 years' worth of confidential tenure documents, which the judge ruled were pertinent to Jackson's case, had been incinerated. Allan A. Ryan, Jr., the lawyer representing the University, maintains that the destruction of the documents was inadvertent...
...border from Laredo, Texas, last week, U.S. Customs officials insisted that the convoy drivers pledge not to violate the Administration's trade embargo by leaving their vehicles in Nicaragua. The drivers refused, claiming Nicaragua needed the rolling stock to transport children to hospitals and crops to market. After an eight-day stalemate, the convoy organizers decided to turn around and take their case directly to Washington, where they planned to lobby Congress and display samples of their humanitarian cargo across the street from the White House...
...closing arguments were about to end last week in the eight-day non-jury trial, Jackson's attorney mentioned a speech in which the former business professor received high praise. In the 1987 keynote address to the American Marketing Association, a prominent marketing scholar called Jackson's work one of seven "milestone" concepts of marketing theory in the 1980s...
...eight-day siege at the detention center in Oakdale, La., ended Sunday when 1000 inmates released their 26 hostages...
...ground for this eight-day theater-and-therapy workshop has been prepared by a previous visit to Bridgewater in which 15 volunteer patients (as the center calls its inmates) were guided in the creation of a drama about incidents that had affected their adult lives. On this visit Bergman's task is even more complex: to dredge up memories from the ages of five to twelve and assemble them into a play. Since, as center Administrator Ian Tink notes, "90% of these patients were sexually abused as children," the hope is that by seeing themselves as victims they will realize...