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According to Provost Steven E. Hyman, the idea of an ombudsperson arose in the wake of the Katz Committee report on labor and wage policy at Harvard issued last year. The idea was to address the “perception that some employees feel they have no ‘safe harbor’ to take concerns,” Hyman wrote in an e-mail...
...take over his life. In 1998 he returned to China for more studies, enrolling at the prestigious Hopkins center in Nanjing. There he met local journalist Xie Chunlin, whom he brought back to the U.S. and married in 2000. Ford briefly interned in the office of Portland Mayor Vera Katz but otherwise supported his family by selling cell phones. He became more serious about his faith, letting his beard grow, wearing a Muslim cap and studying Arabic. Friends say the man they knew as a gentle giant began distancing himself from the African-American Muslim community, choosing instead to pray...
While some shops carry all kinds of antiques, many specialize. Gerald Katz Antiques on Royal Street concentrates on antique and estate jewelry, according to its president, David Gibson. His offerings range from a pair of "retromodern" American 1940s earrings for $400 to an 1870 French emerald, diamond and gold bracelet for $125,000. Military-history buffs looking for antique toy soldiers can stop into David Dugas' shop, Le Petit Soldier, also located on Royal Street. There you can shell out anywhere from $20 for a 1930s, 3 1/2-in. papier-mache soldier to $4,500 for a 1930s windup German gunboat...
Still, an industry that turns up the heat on others is learning how it feels. Gary Katz, CEO of Child Support Network, the nation's second biggest deadbeat-collection firm, worries that a small number of complaints could endanger what he feels is "a critical option for moms seeking help." He adds that his company brought an array of investigative resources to bear upon Suzanne Simmonds' case and therefore earned its fees. And for the record, his company no longer uses the form letter sent to Simmonds--but not because it contained harsh language. Katz explains, "We stopped using...
...Noam B. Katz ’04, a Crimson editor, is a history and science concentrator in Eliot House...