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...School graduates Victor H.J. Jih and Tamara “Tammy” T.J. Jih crossed the finish line first on Sunday’s season 14 finale of The Amazing Race to claim the victory and the $1 million prize. Victor and Tammy, siblings who graduated from HLS ten years apart (1996 and 2006 respectively) and are both litigators, traveled 40,000 miles and completed tasks in nine countries over the course of the race, which ended in Maui, Hawaii. They braved eight rounds of elimination, as well as stiff competition from the two other teams...
...editors: Harvard’s support for Barack Obama during his presidential campaign was enthusiastic and near-unanimous. When he won, the university was jubilant. His ideals of shared sacrifice and spreading the wealth, however, appear to have made few inroads on campus (“HLS Will Cut Staff To Trim Budget,” News, May 6). While faculty and top administrators, most of who earn six figures, face the annoyance of not receiving pay raises, staff and service workers are threatened with losing their jobs altogether. In this economy, it is unlikely they can find new ones...
...surf, you’ve got Hollister. If you play polo you’ve got, well, Polo. And now, thanks to one enterprising Harvard Law School student, those who play lacrosse have Status Flow. When co-founder Kevin A. Valsi, a second-year student at HLS, launched Status Flow Clothing last year, he was hoping to capitalize on lacrosse’s growing popularity among high school and college students by catering to what he characterized as an under-served subculture. “I found it interesting and surprising that there weren’t any brands associated...
Daniel Halperin, an HLS professor who specializes in tax policy and non-profit organizations, said that an evaluation of the proper tax treatment for the income would also depend on whether Harvard’s share of the management fees is collected from regularly conducted trade or business, and the reasons why Harvard is making special arrangements with the money managers. He added that resolving these issues conclusively is difficult without access to more detailed information...
Leff, the visiting HLS professor, said that while he did not have enough understanding of Rose’s specific concerns to make an informed judgment, “a lawyer asked by an auditor about the legal authority for the treatment of a transaction should be able to give at least the legal reasoning under which the treatment is proper...