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...lawsuit was filed last week in U.S. District Court aimed at disallowing companies from distributing term papers online. In the suit--believed to be the first of its type in the nation--Boston University alleges that online term paper distributors violate federal law by engaging in mail and wire fraud, and violate a state law prohibiting the sale of term papers and other research materials. A representative of one of the companies named in the suit, speaking to The Crimson on grounds of anonymity, claims in its defense that B.U. is attempting to abridge its First Amendment rights by censoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop Term Paper Mills Over Internet | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...supporters whom Jiang has to placate. But he has clearly proved himself a capable wheeler-dealer with one great advantage in China. "He is an opportunist," says a Chinese political scientist in Beijing, "because he is bereft of any ideological belief and ready to embrace any ideas that suit him." That talent will undoubtedly come in handy as the very new face of communist China visits the headquarters of the capitalist West for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: MEET JIANG ZEMIN | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...free tickets to Lord of the Dance!" The writers have decided to find humor in gay stereotypes, but there is something brittle and off-putting about this. While that strategy may work in the movie In & Out, Ellen seems to be reaching for a campiness that doesn't suit it. Those flaws aside, the real problem may be mediocre writing. In the Yellow Pages episode last week, Ellen didn't want her friends to know she had hired a straight plumber. The scenes of her trying to prevent them from going into the kitchen, where he was working, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ELLEN DEGENERES: YEP, SHE'S STILL GAY | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Twenty-five years ago, B.U. brought a suit against term paper mills. After winning an injunction against several companies, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a law one year later outlawing the practice

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B.U. Sues Term Paper Service After Investigation | 10/23/1997 | See Source »

Leong's family, assisted by their lawyer, Gen Fujioka, a staff attorney for the Asian Law Cancus, filed suit in civil court to challenge the eviction...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elderly Tenant in Calif. Evicted by Prof. & Wife | 10/23/1997 | See Source »

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