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...founder of the Harvard University Security, Parking, and Museum Guard Union (HUSPMGU) and longtime Harvard employee, died in September of multiple organ failure. He was 59. As HUSPMGU president, McCombe frequently pitted himself against the University administration during negotiations for better pay and the unfolding of a discrimination lawsuit filed in the 1990s by a fellow guard. McCombe retired under pressure in 2003, when his health required him to carry around an oxygen tank. He suffered from diabetes and a weak lung. His post, particularly in later years, placed him at the heart of the campus, where he could...
...Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday for the search engine’s practice of digitally scanning copyrighted works from several libraries, including Harvard’s, without the publisher’s permission.The AAP’s filing is the second lawsuit this fall against Google and its Print Library Project, which scans volumes at Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library. The Authors Guild, a society of published authors, also filed a copyright lawsuit last month.With its lawsuit, the AAP is seeking a declaratory...
...appreciate the journalism of The Crimson in its article “DormAid Could Face HSA Lawsuit,” (news, Oct. 6), because most students would never find out the lengths to which Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) is willing to go to rout competition. To make things abundantly clear, there are no stolen business plans or breaches of contract. We had no reason to take anything from HSA, and, if anything, we were too charitable as we worked 60-hour weeks without overtime pay, I donated my vehicle to be used as a delivery truck without reimbursement...
...bottom line in 2003. Taking the trans fats out of a product without affecting taste is often far more complex and costly than developing a new one from scratch. That's partly why Kraft had to be pushed to speed up its efforts. The nudge came from a lawsuit filed by British-born lawyer and trans-fat crusader Stephen Joseph, founder of BanTransFats.com...
...does the average American diner really care? The Hartman Group, a Bellevue, Wash., consultancy, has found that although a majority of consumers have heard about trans fats--mainly because of Joseph's Oreo lawsuit--only about 14% are likely to actively avoid them. Charlie Lousignont, an executive at Fazoli's restaurant chain, based in Lexington, Ky., which cut trans fats from most of its menu last April, points out that consumers tend to make choices based on taste, not virtue. "The ultimate food product," he says, "is low in calories, carbohydrates and sodium and has no trans fats. That leaves...