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When Harvard's Office of Information Technology (OIT) barreled into the the student computer market with manufacturer-subsidized, cut-rate Macintoshes from Apple, Inc., local high-tech merchants were apprehensive. And the business certainly hasn't been smooth, with three outside computer stores in Harvard Square going under in the past six months...
Light told the commission that he began hobnobbing with mobsters at an early age. Growing up Jewish in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn, Light hung around his grandfather's bathhouse, which was also frequented by members of the notorious Murder, Inc. Upon graduating from | Brooklyn Law School in 1962 and going to work as an assistant district attorney, he began to moonlight as legal counsel for some of his acquaintances from the neighborhood. When the D.A. ordered him to abandon his private practice in 1969, Light instead quit to work full time for the Cosa Nostra. He said...
...lawyers argue their cases; an American flag stands to one side of the bench and a Bible is handy for swearing in witnesses. But while the legal disagreement is ordinary enough, the courtroom is not run by any government. Instead, it is operated by a Philadelphia company called Judicate, Inc. For fees that average about $600, Judicate issues opinions in such noncriminal cases as personal-injury suits and contract disputes. The decisions of the firm's judges, all of whom have retired from the public court system, are either binding or not, depending upon the prior agreement of the parties...
Huntington Learning Centers, Inc., smallest of these operations, has been in business since 1977. It owns 13 teaching marts, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, and has sold franchises for 37 more in eleven states. It charges $19-$22 an hour for remedial reading and math and offers coaching for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to college-bound students, a service its rivals are taking...
...teaching centers seem one of those ideas that please just about everybody, including businessmen: last year Sylvan was taken over by a child- care conglomerate called Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. for $5.2 million in stock (some $3 million for Fowler). And Encyclopedia Britannica absorbed Reading Game for an undisclosed price. Huntington remains independent, its owner ebullient about the future of teaching for profit. "It's an American response to an academic problem," he says. "You can solve this problem and make money...