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...French lawyer for Zoe's called the entire matter politically motivated. But that position became harder to defend in the face of claims by another French relief organization that most of the 103 children were neither orphans - nor even Sudanese for the most part. Those allegations were reinforced on Thursday when two U.N. agencies said they?d managed to confirm 91 of the children had at least one parent, and most came from Chad. French media reports, meanwhile, quoted residents of Chadian villages claiming they'd seen some of the 103 children lured from their homes into trucks by visiting...
...Daily Oklahoman. "But the bottom line is, any decision is going to come down to the board." The school has hired a Washington, D.C., law firm to run an independent investigation and an audit. It suggested that the professors' case could be solved by mediation, but the ex-teachers' lawyer has so far refused to engage...
...Despite these overall positive trends, two near-death incidents in the fall of 2006 shook up College administrators, prompting Gross and Robert W. Iuliano ’83, the University’s top lawyer, to organize another committee, focused on student organizations and social clubs. The Committee on Social Clubs, chaired by Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, was asked to consider “what, if any, disciplinary measures should be applied to hazing or other unsafe behavior violating College rules on alcohol or drug use,” according to the April 2007 report...
...directed and co-written by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda), is much more plausibly character driven. We feel we know these people, possibly might even be these people in certain circumstances. There is, for example, something recognizably feckless in Ruffalo's character, clinging narrowly to respectability as a small-town lawyer, but running behind in everything from his support payments to his housekeeping habits. He loves his son deeply, but somehow doesn't seem to know what to do with him besides ordering pizza and watching ballgames with him. In particular, he has lost any hope of understanding from his tightly...
...favorite of Alfred E. Vellucci, a former Cambridge mayor who had suggested turning Harvard Yard into a parking lot and putting a public bathroom in the Lampoon building, according to a 1991 New York Times article. Powers said he and other members of the Lampoon were told by their lawyer not to comment. The Lampoon’s lawyer could not be reached for comment...