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...company and walking away with a fat profit. Unocal made him exempt from the offer, however, which was a daring strategy since companies generally presume that the law requires them to treat all stockholders equally. Yet in a surprising reversal of a lower-court decision, Delaware's Supreme Court upheld Unocal's plan to cut the hostile raider out of the deal...
However, what do we mean by a minimum unless that sun is uncompromisingly upheld? Apparently precisely those policies strongly affirmed by the Committee (and listed above) would be circumvented. How will this program be evaluated? Will students ignorant of the high price of living in Cambridge be informed that their aid level is lower than Harvard thinks allowable? Will students simply spend more time working on outside jobs, thus leathering the time to graduation? Does Harvard really want to spread it's financial resources as than as possible Surely, erring on the side of slight benefitting students better than...
...sharpest criticisms came from the panel's dissenting judge, J. Skelly Wright, who called his colleagues' interpretation of actual malice "a startling revision." If the jury verdict is upheld, Wright predicted, "the effect on freedom of expression will be incalculable. The message to the media will be unmistakable--steer clear of unpleasant news stories." The Post is expected to ask the full ten-member appeals court to hear the case...
...rape, Gary Dotson, 28, seemed suddenly to be a technicality away from freedom when Cathleen Crowell Webb, his alleged victim, came forward to confess that she had made up the story. But last week, after listening to Webb recant her testimony in a Cook County court, Judge Richard Samuels upheld the original jury verdict and ordered Dotson returned to prison. As a stunned Dotson was taken away once more, Webb sobbed, "He's wrong! Gary Dotson is innocent...
Much to its credit, the City of Cambridge courageously imposed a ban on the testing, storage, and transportation of nerve gas agents within the city limits. Last month, a Middlesex Superior Court judge upheld Cambridge's ordinance, ruling that it was both "reasonable and enforceable." Yet ADL has filed an appeal and could drag the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...