Word: motioning
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...their motion for summary judgment, Shleifer’s lawyers argue the economics professor was a consultant to, not an employee of, HIID. As a result, they argue, Shleifer was not covered by language in the USAID policy that banned investments by employees in their host countries...
Yesterday’s hearing represents the parties’ first protracted engagement in front of the judge since Woodlock considered Harvard’s motion to dismiss the case...
Today is, at last, Harvard’s day in court, for a case that dates back to the early 1990s. Over the summer, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion against Harvard for $102 million, alleging conflicts of interest that violated the Harvard Institute for International Development’s (HIID) contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Russia from 1992 to 1997. During that time, HIID was advising the restructuring of the Russian economy—and HIID’s officers were under strict orders, the U.S. says, not to personally invest...
...telling his mistress, Komal (who is carrying his child), and is ostracized by the community. When Komal later learns what has happened, she kills herself out of shame and fear that she and her unborn baby may also be infected. But this being Bollywood, despite the tragedies set in motion by Sanjay's "one moment" of weakness, the story concludes with all remaining parties reconciled. Ballagan herself couldn't have wished for a happier ending...
...wonder that Yen speaks English at all, let alone as the female lead in what Hollywood calls a major motion picture. Until recently, her only ambition was to be the best ballerina in Ho Chi Minh City. But her boyfriend, Ngo Quang Hai, is an actor. And one day she accompanied him to an audition for The Quiet American. Yen's simmering stillness caught a casting director's eye?isn't this how Cinderella stories go??and she was introduced to director Phil Noyce...