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Gelfard said she wanted New York alumni to use the education they received at Harvard and "give some-thing back" to society. And while Harvard has long had organizations to inform students about public service, she said, New York has few existing institutions to encourage community work...
...killing every Jew in all of German-occupied Europe. Himmler's special commandos had shot tens of thousands of Jews in Poland, but the Nazis sought more efficient methods. Himmler's deputy, Reinhard Heydrich, summoned representatives of all major government departments to the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to inform them of what he called "the final solution." This required the creation of six giant extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Maidanek, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor. The Wannsee conference was called for Dec. 9 but had to be put off for six weeks because of the extraordinary news from the Pacific...
...passed by Congress in 1970 to combat organized crime, RICO is increasingly being used as a battering ram against the clubby defenses of financial institutions. Because it allows prosecutors to seize all assets -- including homes, salaries and pensions -- of those indicted, many people facing a RICO count offer to inform on their former colleagues in exchange for leniency. Last week Anton Valukas, the U.S. Attorney who supervised the 2 1/2-year probe, advised both Chicago exchanges that if the RICO-charged traders are convicted, the prosecution intends to lay claim to their membership seats, a $7.5 million prize...
However, many city residents have criticized the role of the city manager, saying that he is no longer accountable to the people. During several controversial debates this year, the charge was made that Healy had not made an effort to inform adequately the council or the city of his actions...
...recent decades has been the ceding of moral concern to right-wingers. Just because one opposes censorship, one need not be seen as agreeing with pornographers. Why should liberals, of all people, oppose Gore when she asks that labels be put on products meant for the young, to inform those entrusted by law with the care of the young? Liberals were the first to promote "healthy" television shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. In the 1950s and 1960s they were the leading critics of television, of its mindless violence, of the way it ravaged the attention span needed...