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Harvey A. Silverglate, a Boston lawyer who co-founded the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and has represented students charged by the Ad Board, calls the resident dean’s role a “conflict of interest...
...they do it? In October 2003, a glamorous, well-to-do 29-year-old lawyer named Hanadi Jaradat calmly walked into a restaurant in Haifa and blew herself up, killing 21 Israelis and wounding 48 others. In her case, revenge was the motive: Israeli soldiers had raided her home, killing her brother and fianc, both militants, as she helplessly watched. Several Palestinian intellectuals interviewed for this article declined to publicly challenge the accepted version that women are driven to become suicide bombers out of a desire to avenge Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israelis. But that...
...According to court documents filed in the case, Chiquita executives were aware of the inclusion of the AUC on the the U.S. list of foreign terror organizations, and debated whether they should continue with the payments. The documents show that the company consulted with a lawyer who, in a February 2003 e-mail stated unequivocally: "Bottom line: CANNOT MAKE THE PAYMENT...
...terms of the deal scandalized human rights activists in Washington and high-level officials in Colombia: "If they had admitted to paying Al-Qaeda, things would be different," said Dan Kovalik, a lawyer with the United Steelworkers Union, which is sponsoring civil suits against a number of U.S. corporations for allegedly hiring Colombian paramilitaries to kill or intimidate union members and officials...
...salary. There are a “large number of students interested in changing the world,” he said, “but who want to do so through non-governmental means, such as NGOs or non-profits.” Victoria Bjorklund, a leading nonprofit tax lawyer, said that the difficulty of regulating non-profits and the inadequacy of laws governing non-profits can lead to scandals such as the one that engulfed student loan giant Sallie Mae earlier this spring that resulted in the company agreeing to pay a $2 million settlement...