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Harvard may soon be nearing a day of reckoning. On Feb. 18, the family of Trang Phuong Ho '96 filed a lawsuit against Harvard University and several members of its advising system. Ho was murdered in May 1995 by Sinedu Tadesse '96, her Dunster House roommate. Tadesse hanged herself in their bathroom the day of the murder. Last summer, Melanie Thernstrom '87, a former Adams House non-resident tutor, enlarged her controversial 1995 New Yorker article and published a book about the incident, charging Harvard with allowing troubled students to fall through the cracks. When the book appeared, the University...
...issue subpoenas to six women who have already testified under oath that they did not have an affair with Clinton. Starr's goal is to determine whether anyone induced them to cover up for the President. The six were deposed by attorneys for Paula Jones as part of Jones' lawsuit against Clinton. Five of them have been responding to rumors that they had been involved with Clinton since the early 1980s. The sixth is Shelia Lawrence, widow of M. Larry Lawrence, the former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland whose body was removed last month from Arlington National Cemetery. Lawrence...
...lawsuit charges the University, Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem, former Dunster House senior tutor Suzi Naiburg and Dunster House premedical advisor David B. Lombard with negligent acts that directly resulted in the 1995 death of Trang Phuong...
Here's hoping the family of Trang Phuong Ho wins its lawsuit against the University. Few organizations in the world respond better to economic incentives than Harvard, and if the University could use some prodding in any one direction, it is in its attitude toward providing its students with a safety net of advising staff...
Nearly three years after the tragic Dunster House murder-suicide, the family of Trang Phuong Ho '96 filed a lawsuit against the University yesterday...