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...larger donation. But somewhere in the process of phone calls and free ice cream at Herrells I started thinking: "Someday I'll be one of those alums on the other end of the phone. Someday a student is going to be calling me and asking for a cash settlement for four years of easy living on campus." What would I decide? And more important, what would I say to justify that choice...
Which brings us to greater Atlanta, 1999. Once a wilderness, it's now a 13-county eruption, one that has been called the fastest-spreading human settlement in history. Already more than 110 miles across, up from just 65 in 1990, it consumes an additional 500 acres of field and farmland every week. What it leaves behind is tract houses, access roads, strip malls, off ramps, industrial parks and billboards advertising more tract houses where the peach trees used to be. Car exhaust is such a problem that Washington is withholding new highway funding until the region complies with federal...
...there ever was a time for Microsoft employees to slap their boss with a reality check, this is it. The antitrust trial is on a six-week hiatus. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson urged the two sides to come up with a settlement in the interim. Intel settled its suit with the FTC last week before the case even went to court, sidestepping the kind of white-hot publicity that has roasted Microsoft. And yet the only word to come out of Redmond is a leaked memo from Microsoft lawyer David Heiner to the executive team. Shunning all evidence...
With the threat of litigation looming, lawyers for the University and Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz met this week to discuss the terms of a possible out-of-court settlement of the professor's tenure appeal...
...While no one from the University was available to confirm the engagement of Lukey, who was not present at this week's meetings, she served as Harvard's counsel in the Clare Dalton tenure case, which ended in a $260,000 settlement in 1992. Dalton, a former HLS professor, sued Harvard in the late 1980s claiming gender discrimination...