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Last spring, when students were suing Harvard Delivery News Service (HDNS) for failing to reimburse them in full for missed copies of The New York Times and the Boston Globe, HDNS officials and subscribers were haggling out questions of nickels and dimes...
Meanwhile--unknown to angry subscribers--HDNS and the newspapers' wholesalers were trying to settle questions of thousands of dollars...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students--who calls himself Harvard's "official responsible for the service" even though HDNS and Harvard have no legal relationship--admitted that HDNS's manager until January 1980, Martin Olive '78-4, left the news service with almost $10,000 in bad debts and more than $14,500 in unaccounted-for check stubs...
...Times assumes that late delivery does not constitute any liability on their part, Berticcini said. He added that he doubts HDNS will ask for reparations from the Times or termination of HDNS's contract with the paper. "They're trying to make some money off this too," he said...
...HDNS is the first stop on the Boston-area circulation route for the Times, which originates at the newspaper's office in Wellesley, Mass., Smith said. He added that the Times is paying both for the leaflets distributed today and for an ad in The Crimson on Thursday and Friday which exhonerates HDNS from blame...