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Last August, Harvard paid $26.5 million to settle the lawsuit, in addition to $2 million that Shleifer paid himself...
...there's always the money angle, which - no surprise - is very common. People can get out of work and still get paid with a "doctor's note", and many expect to be paid-off in a lawsuit if a doctor validates their claim. Are these people lying? How can you prove it? In 2006, with all the modern medical technology we have, pain still remains completely subjective; it exists only in the mind of the person feeling...
...brings a lot of momentum to the office,” says Kathy Spiegelman, Harvard’s Chief Allston Planner, of her boss.BUILDING FROM MASSPORT At his previous post at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Gordon overcame challenges to the $4.4 billion renovation of Logan Airport posed by lawsuits filed by neighbors and contractors.Gordon says that like his group at Harvard, his team at Massport focused on finances, not community relations, but acknowledges that his experience negotiating with local residents and city officials will be useful at Harvard. “[Harvard] clearly wanted to make sure I was confident...
...Trouble is, a lot of those votes are not in the city. Evacuees live in 44 states now. The NAACP and other groups filed a lawsuit to delay the election, establish polling centers out of state and force FEMA to turn over the addresses of evacuees to the campaigns. They lost. The state of Louisiana agreed to set up 10 polling places outside of New Orleans but in-state, near the borders of neighboring states. Community groups like ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which help low- and moderate-income families, have organized buses leaving Monday from...
...Kissels were in the process of moving from the Greenwich home the weekend Andrew was murdered. Their landlord, Jean Wurtz, had filed a lawsuit saying the couple hadn't paid the $14,300 rent for six months; the Kissels had subsequently agreed to move out by March 31. The movers didn't actually arrive until the next day. According to the Times, the Kissels bickered in front of them. (The paper quoted Hayley Kissel telling one of the movers, "He's going to jail anyway.") Monday morning, when the J.B. Moving employees went back to finish the job, they found...