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Summers’ advice regarding developing nations comes as Harvard fights a two-year-old lawsuit in which the government has alleged that the conduct of two University affiliates undermined a federally funded economic reform program in Russia. The parties are waiting on a judge??€™s decision on whether or not Harvard can be found liable for $102 million in damages without a trial...
...Merchant of Venice—in which a Jewish moneylender seeks retribution against oppressive Venetian society through the law, the only resource available to him, only to be trounced and condemned to Christian conversion by a supposedly impartial judge??€”has elicited extraordinarily varied critical and dramatic interpretations over the past century. Shakespeare wrote the play as a comedy, compelling some critics to categorize it as anti-Semitic, particularly in the heightened awareness of post-Holocaust scholarship...
BOSTON—A small army of lawyers representing Harvard, two co-defendants and the U.S. government sweated a Federal District Court judge??€™s pointed questions yesterday, with the prospect of $102 million in damages hanging over both sides’ heads...
Reflecting on the experience a full year after the judge??€™s decision, Starobin is humbled but upbeat. Something good did come of her painful legal entanlgement. “One of King’s lawyers had a paralegal read my book. When she told me she liked it, I was so happy. That’s what...
Demonstrating his constitutional expertise, Dershowitz said that a judge??€™s authorization would be needed for a specified method of torture—a mere police official could not authorize torture. Dershowitz reached into his knowledge of our collective subconscious and explained that everybody wants torture to be used in such circumstances and would be glad that torture saved innocent lives. He stated that torture is used in such circumstances and that in a democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have...