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...Justice Department closed its 18-month investigation of Sen. Bob Packwood today, deciding against prosecuting the Oregon Republican regarding allegations that he used his influence to solicit job offers from lobbyists for his ex-wife. The Department, which offered no explanation for its decision, had subpoenaed several lobbyists who made job offers. Packwood's problems are hardly over. Today, he spent a second day in closed-door session with the Senate ethics committee, which has kept the job-soliticitation charge alive, along with allegations that Packwood sexually harassed numerous women over two decades andaltered his diaries in an attempt...
...Boston Church of Christ's recruiting tactics are at best harassment and at worst mind-control. We believe the College has a strong interest in not allowing the Church, or a group representing its interests, to use Harvard's name and facilities to solicit Harvard students....It is not religious bias that has brought administrators at Boston University to expel it from campus and those at MIT to suspend its activities....The group cannot be autonomous and its parent group refuses to respect Harvard's ban on proselytism....We support Dean Epps' opposition to the group and hope Dean Jewett...
...tried to take a diverse sample [of thestudent body] and ask them if they could checkwith other students [and] solicit opinions,"Flatley said...
Most staffers interviewed said they were unaware of the finances of the organization. Some said they did not want to solicit...
...Salient plans to solicit donations fromits 600-some subscribers this March. In past yearsthis has raised about $2,000, Pidot said...