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...pure standpoint, not as an act of thuggery but a show of skill,” he recalls.“There was a lot of skating, a lot of passing,” Fusco says. “He worked very hard to see his own values upheld.”More than just a coach, though, Cleary’s former students describe him as a “friend and mentor.”“If you talk to any of the players from that era he was a big influence on them...
...Republic). But is Britain about to leap up the chart? It could. Landmark rulings by Britain's House of Lords last week may, some lawyers predict, make England and Wales a divorce magnet, because the rulings have been so generous to financially dependent spouses. In one case, the judges upheld a $9.4 million award to a woman who'd been married to a fund manager worth $60 million. In the second case, the judges lifted the five-year limit imposed by a lower court on annual maintenance payments of $468,000 to the ex-wife of an accountant who earned...
...denied, the firm will appeal the ruling. And Eli Lilly will challenge the enforceability and validity of the patent in another District Court bench trial, the drug company said. “We are confident that we will prevail in the trial court and the verdict will be upheld by the appeals court, if Lilly files an appeal,” Ariad’s chairman and chief executive, Harvey J. Berger, said in a statement yesterday. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
Harvard inappropriately transferred a $15 million stake in a Canadian window shade company to a private equity firm run by former Harvard endowment managers, a federal appeals court ruled in an opinion released Monday. The court upheld a previous decision declaring that Harvard violated its agreement with Montreal-based Blinds to Go when it sold the stake to a non-Harvard affiliate without first giving the window shade company the chance to buy back the shares on terms “not less favorable.” Harvard had signed an agreement granting Blinds to Go right of first refusal...
...Tymoshenko, has delivered on many of its promises, but also been plagued by infighting and mutual accusations of corruption. On the one hand, business enjoyed the lifting of its tax burden and much red tape, ordinary folks got better wages and pensions, and the freedom of speech and the upheld rule of law made free elections feasible. But at the same time, those achievements have been undercut by periodic shortages of fuel and food and soaring inflation...