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Many critics of LBOs also say that while they make money for the shareholders, they often put employees out of work...
Most of the clinic's clients, says Director John H. Willoughby, are "gay men in their 20s," who have been diagnosed with the disease. The clients often request assistance in such areas as consumer law, estate law and housing discrimination...
...clinic helps patients in financial trouble by arranging low-rate debt payment schedules or, more often, declarations of bankruptcy...
Estate cases, which are new to Harvard legal service programs, are often the most delicate, says Willoughby. "If a gay man is estranged from his family, the law assumes his family is the closest [to him] and has the ultimate decision over his medical care, what happens to his body after his death and his estate," he says. "We try to make sure the people who the patients want to be making the decisions...
...Rushdie affair also reminds us that the hard-won emancipation of the human mind from those who would enslave it, now often taken for granted in the West, is more precious and more fragile than we would like to believe. The decision last week by some U.S. booksellers, including B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, and Barnes & Noble, to remove The Satanic Verses from store displays and shelves can only encourage future acts of intellectual terrorism. They have agreed to put the book back on the shelves, but their initial response is still disturbing...