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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know? The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard (CEWH), an activist alumnae group, has repeatedly requested that Harvard produce a meaningful report on the status of women other than the federally mandated Affirmative Action plan. Harvard has ignored the request. The fact is that despite the occasional lawsuit or letter of protest by faculty women, no one at Harvard has been willing to investigate the possibility of discrimination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...know? The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard (CEWH), an activist alumna group, has repeatedly requested that Harvard produce a meaningful report on the status of women other than the federally mandated Affirmative Action plan. Harvard has ignored the request. The fact is that despite the occasional lawsuit or letter of protest by faculty women, no one at Harvard has been willing to investigate the possibility of discrimination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Not Alone in Discrimination Problems | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J) said last Tuesday he would introduce a bill that would require bottled water to at least meet the same purity standards as tap water. Tighter regulation might be the least of the industry's problems, though: a separate California group filed a lawsuit the day after the report was released, accusing the bottled water industry of various health violations and false advertising...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: Bad News for the Evian Set | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...concern is made more acute by the fact that it is an alcoholic beverage,=For the deans to say that brand of beer is going to cause more problems...they re obviously not that intelligent,=If young adults want to drink, they re going to drink.=The impending lawsuit from the University caused all the retailers to drop the product,=Our top concern...is anything the public might confuse thinking Harvard might be involved with it,=Trademark law is there to protect the consumer.=If Harvard University wanted to make a lot of money in licensing on its name...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: Harvard: Administration Watch-Dogs Keep Use of Harvard Name Under Control | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...most recent (and possibly most absurd) move against MP3s was taken last month by Sightsound.com, who threatened MP3.com with a lawsuit asserting that Sightsound held patents which control "among other things, the sale of audio or video recordings in download fashion over the Internet." Such a grandiose claim is comparable to Random House stating that they have the exclusive rights to the process of printing up and distributing written material...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Music for the Masses | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

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