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...were scared out of your stocks during the bear market, no doubt it's time to suit up again. This recovery is real. But it's far too late to pile in indiscriminately. Tobias Levkovich, a U.S.-market strategist at Smith Barney, figures the major stock averages will end the coming year flat or slightly lower as investors wait for the economy to catch up with stock prices. That's no sure thing, given that the stimulative effect of lower taxes and falling interest rates will run its course early...
...Liza, stop it! Stop it!" DAVID GEST, husband of actress Liza Minnelli, describing how he reacted to his wife's alleged drunken and violent attacks on him. He has filed a $10 million civil suit against Minnelli, which she is contesting...
...Louis, Mo., multinational demanded last year that Maine suspend its official Quality seal, which is granted only to milk from uninjected cows. When the state refused, Monsanto took another tack, suing one of Maine's leading dairies in federal court in Boston. The suit charged that Oakhurst Dairy, the company that buys Nutting's milk, is misleading consumers by advertising a no-artificial-hormone pledge, implying that its milk is safer and healthier. "Milk is milk," says Janice Armstrong, Monsanto's director of public affairs...
...coming from cows free of artificial hormones, it could set a precedent for challenging such popular labels as "MSG-free," "no artificial flavors," "free-range" and "GM-free." Maine attorney general Steven Rowe plans to ask Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts to help him fight Monsanto when the suit goes to trial in January. "We in New England are into purity," he says. "The FDA may not have a problem with artificial growth hormones, but many consumers do." That's what farmers like John Nutting are counting...
Fortunately, Harvard now has an opportunity to vindicate its principles without risking federal funding. NYU Law School and several other schools and faculties have formed the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), which has filed suit in federal court to challenge the Solomon Amendment. The suit raises substantial constitutional and statutory issues, and has already survived a motion to dismiss. Harvard has been warmly invited to join FAIR. Again, we ask President Summers to allow Harvard Law School to join FAIR, or to bring its own similar lawsuit challenging the presence of discriminatory recruiters on Harvard?...