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Dudley House has become a particular concern for officials besieged with complaints from students who transfer to Harvard from other colleges and often find themselves lacking the support provided within the residential House system...
...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 Virginia, if the ransom was not paid...
...notified by church officials of Pak's disappearance, contacted him in Washington. Pak revealed the kidnap plot to the FBI and canceled the wire transfer of the ransom money. Through his identification of the kidnapers, two of whom he knew personally, investigators tracked down and arrested six men. They included Unification Church Associates Sang Whi Nam and Yung Soo Suh. An attorney for Nam said that the abduction arose out of an internal church dispute and was an attempt to change Unification Church policy. Joy Garrett, a church spokeswoman, said that Nam's claim was "absolutely false," adding...
...Adding insult to Mitterrand's already injured political fortunes, the mayors of Strasbourg and Colmar last week boycotted his formal visit to Alsace in order to protest the transfer of a planned nuclear-research facility from the area to Grenoble...
Rising fees are only one item on the consumer grievance list. Another complaint is banking's continued use of the float on checks. While this is an old banking practice, it seems particularly irritating at a time when modern communications make it possible for banks to transfer funds around the world in a matter of seconds. Money deposited as checks can often be used by the customers only after holding periods that may range from two days to three weeks. During that hiatus, the bank has, in effect, impounded the money since it receives credit for the check...