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...scene looked more like a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly than a civil trial, as San Francisco's Nourse Auditorium last week became the largest courtroom in memory. Dozens of lawyers at 28 counsel tables appeared before California Judge Ira Brown at the start of what could be an 18-month megatrial. At issue is who should bear the cost of asbestos-related lawsuits; 25,000 of them have been filed against some 30 companies, mostly by former workers ill with cancer and lung disease associated with breathing in asbestos fibers. In the San Francisco case, five former asbestos...
Aside from the MacArthur grant, the Society received start-up funding of $10 million from Dr. Ira Kukin last November...
...Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner saw nothing wrong with the public support for a victim of crime who fights back. "To live today in urban America means that you are severely at risk and essentially helpless to deal with the problem of crime. When someone comes along to make you feel you are not helpless, then everyone collectively throws their hats...
...initiated the creation of a society of international fellows, which would host established experts as well as young professors for study in international relations. New Jersey industrialist Dr. Ira Kukin, who in 1951 got a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard, gave $5 million in October toward the new program, which officials said will need some additional funds to get off the ground...
...Jersey industrialist Ira Kukin, who received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard in 1951 and this October gave $5 million to help set up a society of international fellows for scholars in international relations: "First, I owed it to Harvard. I got my education there, and it made a big difference to me. Second, I felt I was being given the opportunity to do something for mankind [through establishing the society of fellows] . . . . And finally, when all is said and done, there's a very simple reason for my gift. I feel very proud of Harvard, and I can assure...