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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology reached a $6 million settlement with the parents of a first year who drank himself to death at a 1997 fraternity initiation, officials said Wednesday...
...Darlene Krueger told The Boston Globe that in order to prevent similar tragedies they decided to decline confidential settlement offers and demand that the terms of the settlement be disclosed...
...foreshore is blessedly protected, so that at North and Middle Heads, at Bradleys Head, in the valleys of Lane Cove, along the mangrove swamps of the river near Parramatta or in the upper reaches of Middle Harbour, you can fancy yourself back in the time before European settlement...
...site, the site constitutes a threat, and is therefore illegal. That jury awarded $109 million to the plaintiffs, which included four named doctors and Planned Parenthood. The ruling is currently facing an appeal, and Tuesday, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals offered both parties two days to consider a settlement agreement. Legal experts consider this case to be a shoo-in for the Supreme Court's docket...
...residents of Scuffletown, as described by Rhoda Strong, its most famous daughter and this novel's indomitable narrator, "are the very type He listed among those preferred to inherit the earth." Like Rhoda, most who live in this swampy 19th century North Carolina settlement are descendants of the region's native Indians and pawns to both armies during the waning days of the Civil War. With fluid writing, nuanced characters and a suspenseful pace, Humphreys blends historical romance with a meditation on the ambiguities of race and morality...