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...prestigious NCAA tournament, which began a year later. Originally hosting just six teams, the field of the NIT has grown throughout the years, with the most recent expansion in 2002 bringing the total number of invitees to 40. The NCAA recently bought out the NIT as part of the settlement of a lawsuit, making this year the first in which NCAA sanctioned officials will select the NIT field.“There’s talk amongst people in the league [that with] the expansion of the NIT and the taking over of the NIT by the NCAA there?...
...months ago, Israeli Army officer Michael B. Oren was breaking into a Gaza synagogue with a sledgehammer. At Emerson Hall last night, Oren, who is also a historian and a visiting lecturer at Harvard this spring, recounted the traumatic experience of dismantling Jewish settlements during the Gaza disengagement.The Gaza is a narrow strip on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that—from 1967 until last August—was controlled by Israeli forces.But last August, Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza and removed approximately 8,000 Jewish settlers from the territory.And last night, Oren transported...
...does not determine Iran's foreign policy alone. It is ultimately in the hands of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which reports to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And despite the Iranian president's defiant posture, the National Security Council has signaled its continuing interest in a negotiated settlement by announcing that an Iranian delegation will visit Moscow next week for talks on a proposed Russian compromise. But with Ahmadinejad turning the nuclear issue into a populist cause, it's far from certain that the more pragmatic heads will prevail...
...June 28, 2004, a U.S. district court found Shleifer liable for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, and concluded that Harvard had breached its contract with the government. Under the settlement, announced in August, neither the University nor Shleifer admitted any liability...
...professors asked Summers about his role in the $26.5 million settlement Harvard was forced to pay this summer to settle a lawsuit involving Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, who is close friend of the president...