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However, these conflicts need not exist. When PBHA is strong, as it presently is, the organization itself demonstrates that we don't need to have warring tribes. Through participation in the settlement house movement in the 1920s, during the activism of the 1970s, and with the new college volunteerism of the 1990s, PBHA and a host of other public service programs at Harvard and Radcliffe have attempted to bring the "must do mores" and the "stop it all nows" together. Some programs can accomplish this by including both service and action (the Small Claims Advisory Service simultaneously provides advice...
...Rutherford Institute, a legal-advocacy group he founded to fight discrimination against religious believers, has taken up Jones and her claim that Clinton made a crude sexual advance toward her six years ago, when he was Arkansas Governor. When Jones' team of lawyers recently quit after she rejected a settlement offered by the President's attorneys, it was Whitehead's group that hooked Jones up with her present attorney. And thanks mainly to Rutherford's generous funding--Whitehead estimates its share of her court costs could add up to $200,000--Jones has been able to force the President...
...Prince William, 15, and Prince Harry, 13, face a 40 percent tax bill on her estate, which reportedly is worth $35.5 million. After her 1996 divorce from Charles, Diana did not change her will to take into account her new wealth ? a $28.7 million settlement, plus interest. Diana had earlier estimated her wealth at a mere $1.7 million...
...Because the settlement was based on a life expectancy of 85 ? and Diana died only a year after the divorce ? lawyers for Prince Charles considered trying to get a court to overturn the settlement and return the money to her ex-husband, who would put it in a trust for his sons. A spokeswoman for the Prince of Wales said: "We are keen that all tax dealings should be seen as straightforward and that there should be no question of the Royal Family receiving preferential treatment...
Given the stakes, a settlement makes sense, though it would be awkward for Eisner to pay Katzenberg a vast sum in the wake of shareholder anger over the $130 million or so that Disney dealt to Michael Ovitz after firing him as president last December. Conversely, the Ovitz settlement ensures that Katzenberg's sights are set high: Why should Katzenberg take less for 10 successful years than Ovitz got for 14 unimpressive months? If a deal is made, three things seem certain. One: the terms will be sealed. Two: the amount will be leaked to the press--by both sides...