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...problems the bank is facing." The FDIC originally wanted the directors to leave immediately, but Continental Chairman John Swearingen persuaded the agency to allow them to serve until April, when replacements can be elected at the company's annual meeting. Given Continental's troubles, the new slate of directors may have full-time jobs on their hands...
THIS WEEK, HRAI has once again presented Harvard with a slate of three prisoners being held against the dictums of the United Nations Human Right Resolution on its 36th anniversary. There is Mila Aguilar, literary scholar and activist in the Phillipines, who was arrested ostensibly for "subversion." Through this charge was later changed to possession of subversive documents for which she was allowed to post bail, she was not released, but rather kept in solitary confinement. She is the aunt of Eric Aguilar San Juan...
...Unification Church. One evening last September. Pak, who has been acting as leader of the church while Moon serves an 18-month sentence in federal prison for tax evasion, was abducted outside a Manhattan hotel. Blindfolded and handcuffed, Pak was driven 80 miles to a house in Slate Hill, N.Y., where his kidnapers tortured him with electric shocks. Two days later, Pak's abductors ordered him to fly to Washington and transfer $500,000 in church funds to a numbered bank account in Switzerland. They threatened to harm Pak's wife and six children, who live in suburban...
...Crimson (6-0, 4-0 ECAC) goes into the contest as the only undefeated Division I hockey team in the nation, while the Big Red boasts only a 3-3 (2-2 ECAC) slate...
Last year the team (which entered the tourney with a 10-11 slate) was no match for most of the competition, as it went 2-5 in match play and did not win a single game in its five losses...