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Harvard and its star economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 said earlier this month they had reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. government in a five-year-old fraud suit that has spanned two continents and embarrassed both the University and the professor...
...terms of the settlement were not announced, and the parties said several details still need to be resolved. At a hearing in U.S. District Court on Monday, June 13, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock gave the parties 60 days to ink the deal...
...Lincoln decided that he needed Douglass again and requested a second, urgent meeting with him. He was dejected about Northern opposition to the war and his gloomy prospects for re-election. Almost everyone, it seemed, wanted peace, and most people felt that Lincoln's antislavery policy prevented a peaceful settlement with the Confederacy. Conservatives had nominated McClellan for President, and Lincoln was worried that if he failed to be re-elected, there would be a negotiated peace with slavery still intact. He had a plan, but Douglass had to help him carry...
...young, single women as flight attendants, reasoning that they made the skies, well, friendlier. In 1970 a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 1,720 women who had been forced to quit United when they married. Last week U.S. District Judge James Moran approved a $37 million settlement in the marathon case...
...addition to 400 it has already rehired. Each will receive between $9,000 and $22,000 in back pay and benefits. Some 890 other plaintiffs who will not return may also receive part of the payout. Said Thomas Meites, an attorney for the flight attendants: "It's a terrific settlement. It's too bad it took so long to get it." AVIATION Mayday for Flying Tigers...