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When Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers arrived at the scene at approximately 1:30 p.m. Friday, they found the man, James M. Fink, on the handicap ramp with a cell phone in one hand and a folding knife in the other, according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. His speech was incoherent and he appeared to be intoxicated, Catalano said...
Police placed Fink, 25, of Quincy, Mass. under arrest shortly thereafter. Fink is not a Harvard affiliate. No one was hurt or threatened in the incident, according to Catalano...
...Those lessons were learned by Wendy's, the fast-food chain, in 2005 after a customer in San Jose, Calif., claimed to have found a human finger in her chili. The incident temporarily drove away Wendy's customers and sales plummeted by 50%, according to Fink, who blames much of the drop on Wendy's ineffectual communciation with the public...
...Fink suggests that Taco Bell replace all of its suppliers until the source of contamination is found. That's what he did while overseeing 2003 E. coli outbreak at Pat & Oscar's, a restaurant chain based in southern California. "Taco Bell needs to send a clear message to the customers that they are going the extra mile to protect them - that has not come across in anything I have seen yet," says Fink...
...Neither Bernstein nor Fink knows the details of Taco Bell's current crisis. But Fink, who also oversaw crisis management for the Jack in the Box restaurant chain when its E. coli outbreak in 1993 sickened 600 and killed four children, predicts that Taco Bell's troubles are just beginning. "I can tell you right now there's going to be class action lawsuits, a lot of litigation involved, and health department investigations," Fink says. "It's going to go on for a period of years, and Taco Bell needs to be prepared for it. I don't know whether...