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Former Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 is one of the most prominent economists in the world, with the most citations of any economist, according to one measure. But his career was tainted when he and various acquaintances, as well as Harvard, were sued...
Shleifer, who paid a $2 million settlement but admitted no wrongdoing after the Justice Department sued him for allegedly defrauding the U.S. government, recently lost his title as the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Economics, apparently as part of the administration’s punishment. The change first appeared...
“A person walked in and said, ‘Oh, I hear you’re being sued,’ and we said, ‘It’s not us,” recalled Michael Skikne, the owner of the Mass. Ave firm. ?...
After days of beatings, Arar wrote a false statement saying he had been trained at a terror camp in Afghanistan. "I was ready to accept a 10-, 20-year sentence, and say anything, just to get to another place," he tells Grey in the book. After nearly a year in...
But not all companies and websites went along with the guidelines, including Target.com. So earlier this year, Sexton and the Federation of the Blind sued Target for violating the disabilities act with an inaccessible website. It seemed a futile move. Everyone knew the act applied only to a "place of...