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Over the last year, Summers had successfully led the University through the initial planning phases for a new campus in Allston without attracting the harsh national scrutiny that has dogged him in the past...
Some view the extraction of personal assets as harsh in the case of WorldCom, where the directors were never found to have had knowledge of the company's crooked bookkeeping. (The directors owned so much WorldCom stock that they lost $250 million in its collapse.) In any event, the settlement could influence penalties in other high-profile cases, such as the shareholder suit against Walt Disney Co. directors over the $140 million paid to former president Michael Ovitz. Charles Elson, director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, says the WorldCom deal could have...
Goldsmith faced criticism last month from a handful of Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty members who alleged that he had helped the Bush administration devise a policy justifying harsh treatment of detainees. Goldsmith’s predecessor as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel signed a now-infamous Aug. 1, 2002 memo, which said that torturing suspected terrorists “may be justified” under...
...Introduce asymmetry to your room. Symmetry or strong, harsh lines are a no-no in wabi-sabi because they represent perfection. Fluid lines reflect wabi-sabi's embrace of nature's unpredictability...
...have our problems,” he siad. “In Night I said some harsh things, but I never divorced God. I was ready to be an orphan...but not a divorce...