Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negotiations haven't yet considered the details. Instead, they say Radcliffe insists on negotiating on the big-picture level, while Harvard stubbornly focuses on the fine print. One high-level observer said only in the past few weeks have more specific talks zeroed in on financial and legal stumbling blocks to an agreement. Outstanding issues include the fate of Radcliffe's $200 million endowment and its prime Cambridge real estate...
...United States attorney's office in Boston is conducting the investigation, which The Crimson has learned could lead to a civil case against Harvard and criminal charges against HIID employees Professor of Economics Andrei Schleifer '82 and legal expert Jonathan...
Sturdy, a junior forward on the Harvard women's basketball team and the Crimson's leading scorer, came of legal drinking age on Sunday, but she was on crutches for the occasion...
Only Texas, in 1997, has passed laws allowing consumers to seek legal damages from health-care programs. Dedicated to a woman who died of a brain tumor soon after she was told her headaches were nothing more than anxiety attacks, the Texas model is serving as something of a laboratory for reformers elsewhere. The landslide of litigation that critics predicted failed to materialize. Only one malpractice suit has so far been filed. The new state review panels expected to be deluged by 4,400 appeals from unhappy patients in the first year alone, but only 280 cases were heard...
Mills, 33, is just the sort of hard-nosed advocate to drag such hypocrisy to the surface. She has rubbed some colleagues the wrong way--and endeared herself to the First Couple--with her scorched-earth responses to legal challenges during her six years at the White House. When a congressional committee was probing the Clinton Administration's use of a White House database, in 1997, Mills was accused of failing to turn subpoenaed documents over to the committee. Indiana Republican David McIntosh asked the Justice Department to investigate her for possible perjury and obstruction of justice. (Justice says...