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...routine announcement of committee assignments issued by Reeves descended into confusion. Kelley noted that two of the committees, Public Safety and Human Services, had more members than stipulated in the rules. The council resolved to amend at a future date the rules to allow for more committee members...
...schools challenging the Pentagon’s recruitment policy, may have tossed away its only chance at victory by refusing to advance an argument made by 40 Harvard law professors that initially appeared to attract the support of several justices.The statute in question, known as the Solomon Amendment, allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from schools that deny the military “equal access” to their campuses. Harvard Law School and many of its peers require recruiters to sign a pledge stating that they will not discriminate against gays.The military, which bars gays from serving openly...
Experts weren’t surprised that FAIR spurned the statutory argument, since Congress could just amend the law again. A Philadelphia attorney who had filed a brief supporting the government’s case, Howard J. Bashman, noted that FAIR had prevailed in the Third Circuit Court by arguing on free-speech, not statutory, grounds...
Harvard Business School (HBS) may amend its current policy of prohibiting students from disclosing their grades to potential employers, MBA Program Chair Richard S. Ruback announced in a letter to the student body last week.The school is considering a return to optional disclosure, under which students would have the choice of letting recruiters see their grades from HBS. The present non-disclosure practice has been in place since 1998.Any changes that HBS decides to implement would not affect students currently enrolled at the school, but would only apply to future classes, Ruback wrote.Ruback and HBS student leaders both said that...
...Although Mubarak claims that he initiated reforms in Egypt more than a decade ago, he seems to have caught the freedom bug recently. Last January, at age 77 and after 24 years in power, he finally conceded longstanding opposition demands to amend the constitution and permit a multiparty presidential election. Apart from growing pressure for internal reform from the Bush administration since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Mubarak was confronted with the birth of a protest movement last December known as Kiyafa, or Enough (as in, "We've had enough of Mubarak!"). He proposed the constitutional change two months...