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...funeral-home practices, according to a new AARP report. Despite laws requiring written price lists, 32% of customers were not offered one, and 29% were misinformed about features, such as the claim that casket liners pre-serve a body. AARP is calling for stricter regulation and the creation of fraud-recovery funds...
...time, America had seen hours of TV images of panic in Atlanta's streets and of the city's financial center under almost martial rule. As his victims are mourned, the dead murderer's grim story keeps unfolding, with details of financial folly, maudlin suicide notes, adultery, brutality, suspected fraud, even an earlier set of suspected murders. At a time of increased public anxiety over such shooting sprees, he is a severed Gorgon's head, freezing onlookers with horrific astonishment. Who was Mark Orrin Barton? Why did he go berserk...
...Harvard had suspended the two students involved before they received their diplomas. And College administrators said that, except for cases of academic fraud, they were not aware of any cases in which Harvard had rescinded a diploma after graduation...
...past, courts have upheld diploma revocations, but Burke said he believed those precedents apply only to instances of fraud...
...Those cases are essentially on some measure of academic fraud," he said. "That certainly hasn't been the case here...