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...civil suit against the IBF - the only major sanctioning body based in the U.S. - seeking the appointment of a monitor to oversee the restructuring of the organization. The impetus: Earlier this month, four top officials from the IBF were indicted on racketeering charges, including taking payoffs to rank lower-tier boxers and squeezing unreasonably large sanctioning fees out of fighters. Prosecutors argue that something needs to be done to restore credibility to the sport following a run of fights demonstrating questionable judging (see: Holyfield-Lewis I) and questionable taste (Tyson and the sucker munch...
What doesn't make sense is that one of Gore's senior advisers, top-tier lobbyist Peter Knight, is a hired gun for pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough, which is in a red-hot battle to stretch out its patent for the best-selling allergy medication Claritin beyond 2002. The New Jersey-based company paid Knight's firm $100,000 in the first half of this year alone...
...sense is that students from different ethnic minority groups at Harvard, when they look at these positions, they don't look at them just in terms of race. But it does become very obvious that the very top tier is not only white, but it's male," Asani says...
...competitive league, which features at least three realistic title contenders, the Crimson will have to work hard to separate itself from the second tier. But it has a strong legacy of achievement on which it's looking to build...
Samuelson, who concentrated in government at Harvard in the mid-1960s, said he's not sure whether or not attending a top-tier college strongly affected his earnings after graduation...