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Harvard also paid $26.5 million last year to settle a five-year-long lawsuit over Shleifer’s work advising a U.S.-funded program to privatize the Russian economy during the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union...
...rules. The revocation of Shleifer’s endowed chair means that the investigating subcommittee found that he did indeed violate those rules, Feldman said.Any financial penalty imposed by the University would be negligible, Feldman said, given that Shleifer has already paid the $2 million to settle the federal lawsuit brought against him. Because of this, Feldman said that stripping Shleifer’s title was the only “realistic” action Knowles could take.“The punishment is largely symbolic, but we should remember that honors are important rewards to academics...
Feldman said that any financial penalty imposed by the University would be negligible, given that Shleifer has already paid $2 million to settle the federal lawsuit brought against...
While the Mass Ave. branch is keeping its Gnomon name, that hasn’t exempted it from confusion either. When the Huntington Avenue Gnomon—which is now independent of both Harvard Square shops—reportedly paid $40,000 this year to settle a lawsuit brought by publishers alleging that it illegally reproduced copyrighted materials, word of the trouble surfaced in Cambridge...
...tells Grey in the book. After nearly a year in captivity, Arar was released and flew home to his family in Canada. A 1,200-page Canadian government report last month absolved him of any suspicion. Arar sued the U.S. government, but a New York federal judge dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that the case could not be heard for security reasons; Arar is now appealing that ruling. Last month's report by a Canadian judge rebuked Canadian and U.S. officials for arresting Arar on faulty information. Jordan has not commented on Arar's rendition...