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Other events planned for the week include two concerts to benefit homeless families, two seminars for people who provide support services to the homeless, a concert and puppet show for homeless children and a benefit auction of works by local artists, Mangano said. The week will end with a Thanksgiving dinner sponsored by Cambridge/Somerville Elderly Services...
...executives who bought Nu-kote also felt ignored by their corporate parent. After the 1986 merger of the Burroughs and Sperry computer companies that produced Unisys, corporate headquarters decreed in a confidential memo that "ancillary" units would be put on the auction block. Reinhold Tischler, then president of the Nu-kote division, called his boss and said, "Ancillary division reporting in. We'd like to buy it." On Jan. 16, 1987 -- Tischler calls it Independence Day -- he and 20 other managers bought Nu-kote for $60 million. After they eliminated several aging product lines, overall sales grew 17% last year...
Students and administrators are up in arms at the University of Wisconsin after a "slave auction" fundraiser at one of the school's fraternities...
Although pledge sales, in which new fraternity members hire themselves out to do menial labor, are common, the racial character of the ZBT auction was highly unusual, students said...
...think [the slave auction] was wrong, definitely wrong; they had no right to do that," said junior James L. Bourne, who said the frat should be "kicked off campus for good...