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...SETTLED. By Wen Ho Lee, 66, U.S. nuclear scientist once suspected of, but never charged with, espionage; his suit against the U.S. government for allegedly violating his privacy by leaking reports that he was being investigated for spying for China; in Washington. The government will pay Lee $895,000 for legal fees and other costs. Separately, five news organizations agreed to pay Lee $750,000, ending proceedings against their reporters for not divulging sources...
...comply.Protesting the government’s “selective harassment,” the students wrote in the letter—which was published in The Crimson—that “the imminent deportation proceedings...represent a classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing political mood of the day.”For Rouhani, however, the policy did not result in significant difficulties. He recalls going to the immigration office, where hundreds of other Iranian students were lined up, and having his status checked and approved without incident.No Iranian students at Harvard faced...
...then was refused a one-year extension of her contract. Wright, who is an African-American woman, filed a grievance with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging that her request for a contract extension was turned down on the basis of race and sex.Wright dropped her suit after she was offered a position at the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African and African American Reseach in the fall of 1981.Contacted at the College of Wooster, where she is a professor of music and chair of the college’s Africana studies department, Wright denied a request...
...born: an anti-Garbo who viewed life and love as a series of awful amusements. In their seven films together--of which a terrific trio (Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman) are included here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract, she got restless, and the two parted in 1935. Their legacy is these films: a uniquely frilly and profound record of an artist's obsession with his model...
SETTLED. By Wen Ho Lee, 66, U.S. nuclear scientist once suspected of, but never charged with, espionage; his suit against the U.S. government for allegedly violating his privacy by leaking reports that he was being investigated for spying for China; in Washington. The government will pay Lee $895,000 for legal fees and other costs. Separately, five news organizations agreed to pay Lee $750,000, ending proceedings against their reporters for not divulging sources...