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...average the first year after a divorce, while a man's rises 10%--although again, younger women are more likely to have careers to fall back on. For one thing, the man's income is usually higher to begin with, so he can afford better lawyers during the settlement. For another, says Frank Furstenberg, sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of a study on children of divorce, "women continue to support the children, and child support doesn't make up the difference." Two-thirds of all divorces involve minor children, and according to Columbia law professor Martha...
Birthday girl Patti Kenner also cheers the movie's celebration of female camaraderie--and charity. In lieu of accepting birthday gifts, she asked friends to contribute to a women's organization. Peg Yorkin, who used some of her more than $50 million divorce settlement from producer Bud Yorkin to found the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1987, says, "Feminism gives women options they probably didn't have 50 years ago. Women who might not be as fortunate as I am at least can usually do something." Marilyn Kane, for instance, has become a counselor for the Coalition for Family Justice...
Harvard will pay the federal government $775,000 as part of a settlement for violations of the Controlled Substances Act by the University Health Services (UHS) Pharmacy...
James H. Rowe III '73, Harvard's vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs, said the settlement does not mean the University is admitting to violating the Controlled Substances...
...doctors suspected the truth: her bowel had been nicked in the surgery, and she was succumbing to a massive infection spawned by leaking feces. Two days later she died. And last week Strunk's survivors announced that they had agreed to accept $3 million from the hospital in full settlement of a wrongful-death suit...