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...case. He talked with Richardson before accepting the job and presented several suggestions for redefining it; many of these suggestions have been incorporated into the guidelines that Richardson drafted to assure the probe's independence. Cox, who has been encouraged to maintain offices outside the Justice Department, will appoint his own staff and plans to make public reports on the progress of the investigation. "A prosecutor does not normally take his findings before the public," says Cox, "but in this case the public is looking for the special prosecutor to do a rather difficult thing...
...would the Vice President take over? Constitutionalists have taken belated note of a provision of the 25th Amendment, ratified six years ago after Lyndon Johnson, having succeeded the murdered John Kennedy, served without a Vice President. The amendment states that if the vice presidency is vacant, the President can appoint a new Vice President, with the concurrence of both houses. The clause is now being cited as a way to install a thoroughly untainted caretaker President. Under this scenario, the caretaker would be appointed to the vice, presidency-made vacant by accession or resignation; when the new Vice President...
...indirect consequences of Masters' prerogatives are far more serious. As long as the tutorial staff is a source of personal patronage for the Master, as long as Masters tend to appoint tutors in their own fields rather than the fields of most interest to students, as long as tutorships remain a way of feeding and housing poor graduate students who catch the Master's sympathy, the Houses will be considerably less than an ideal. Every year students witness some unjustifiable tutorial appointments, and the only explanation for them is petty corruption...
...Richard Nixon pledged that his nominee as Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and the special prosecutor Richardson has promised to appoint, will make sure that the guilty are punished. "They will get to the bottom of this thing," Nixon vowed. Yet in another sense, prosecutors and the courts got to the bottom of Watergate last January when seven insignificant men were convicted. A more momentous and agonizing question remains: Will anyone...
...creative arts. Harvard's first art history course was given by Charles Eliot Norton in 1874. A few sporadic courses in painting and sculpture had been offered in the Fine Arts department. But it was not until 1954 that the University felt it was important enough to appoint a committee to study the practice of the arts at Harvard...