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...drama at computer maker Hewlett-Packard took a turn for the surreal last week when ex-chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others were charged with felonies, including identity theft and conspiracy, in a spy scandal that has sparked congressional hearings and a wave of high-profile resignations, including Dunn's. Nearly two years ago, the media started publishing things only an HP director could know. Dunn tapped private investigator Ronald DeLia to find the leaker. The operation--which included PIs posing as journalists and HP directors in order to access their phone records--fell on the wrong side...
...producer Quincy Jones and “Mod Squad” actress Peggy Lipton. Jones is an actress-modelloungewear designer. “She’s Harvard. So Are You.” the cover coos. The magazine is also embarrassing. One bit, entitled “Identity Theft,” carps at organizations that have employed the Harvard name to elevate themselves: “The Harvard of dog-training schools;” “The Harvard of Pilates Teacher Training Programs.” The irony was apparently lost on 02138. Such self-adoration...
...books that his mother wrote, with the old Yiddish authors who knew his grandfather in Russia, with funeral songs and folk tales and his father’s letters from Vietnam. There are real-life sources propping up Horn’s novel as well: the central art-theft story is ripped from old headlines of The New York Times, when a Chagall painting did in fact disappear during a singles’ cocktail hour...
...August 2005 settlement with the Gloucester district court allowed him to dodge an admission of guilt, but The Crimson reported that Charles L. “Charlie” Lane Sr., the 98-year-old farmer, purportedly caught Weitzman red-handed (brown-handed?) in the middle of his craven theft, detaining him until the police arrived. “You realize the extent to which this ‘Harvard’ thing [has] a lot of baggage attached,” Weitzman said to The Crimson last summer, responding to the local outcry over the alleged theft...
...over $2 million in restitution and fines—is pleading for mercy. The renowned prowler is asking for leniency, in the form of a sentence no longer than 36 months in prison, even as library officials say Smiley has yet to fess up to all of his thefts. Smiley, who admittedly stole a total of 97 maps from a number of libraries, submitted a memo to the Connecticut U.S. District Court on Tuesday asking for leniency in the Sept. 27 sentencing proceeding. But in addition to the eight Harvard-owned maps Smiley has admitted to stealing, there are still...