He also became director of Rabbinic services at Yeshiva University.

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This state of affairs was reflected by a comment that Yeshiva University student Ben Winter made to the media regarding the absence of student protest against Carter on Wednesday.

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"My research suggests something like 90% of the last 200, 000 to 300, 000 asbestosis claims that have been paid are bogus, " says Lester Brickman, a professor at Yeshiva University's law school.

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Lester Brickman, a professor at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N.

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He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from New York University in 1982, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Yeshiva University in 1986 and from Trinity College in 2005.

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"It is absolutely our intent that upon victory this will rend invalid patents on many other genes, " said Dan Ravicher, executive director of the Public Patent Foundation and a patent law professor at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N.

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"Given the experience of fen-phen, it would border on malpractice if Merck's lawyers allowed the same kind of 'litigation doctors' to provide evidence for claims, " said Lester Brickman, professor at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law and expert on mass-tort litigation.

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On the bright side, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a strategy for preventing infections due to herpes simplex viruses (herpes simplex virus 2, the virus that causes genital herpes, and herpes simplex virus 1).

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"Even a company as big as BP can, and will, be driven into bankruptcy" if lawyers can convince judges to allow mass-tort lawsuits over, say, exposure to toxic chemicals in the oil, said Lester Brickman, a professor at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law.

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