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Much ink has been spilled in the past few weeks about the University's decision to disregard student community service leaders' recommendation to appoint the current executive director of Phillips Brooks House (PBH), Greg A. Johnson '72, as the new assistant dean for public service. Student indignation was swift, effective and fully appropriate...
...Skocpol said she disagrees with the letter's proposal to suspend the current selection process and appoint a new committee...
...confidential memo last week to all Cabinet Secretaries and top White House advisers, directing them to submit by Oct. 23 a brief summary of one policy they think would improve the economic conditions of people living in poor urban areas. In Congress, six members asked the President to appoint a commission on race relations, an idea to which the White House has responded coolly...
...seems, the protesters will get their way. After months of paralysis, the House Ethics Committee appears ready to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Speaker on at least some of the complaints lodged against him since he ascended to power. This amounts to Gingrich being Gingriched: it was the detective work of an outside counsel that forced then Speaker of the House, Democrat Jim Wright, to resign in disgrace in 1989. The crusading reformer agitating for the appointment of an independent counsel was none other than Gingrich. As he argued at the time, "The rules normally applied...
Meanwhile, the Packwood debacle promises to reverberate for months--perhaps years--to come. In Oregon, state law does not authorize the Governor to appoint an interim Senator, but instead requires a special election. If Governor John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, selects a date within 80 days, the two parties will choose the candidates, who will then face an open election. If Kitzhaber chooses a later date, there will be both a primary and a general election. Oregon has not sent a fresh face to the Senate since Packwood's first election in 1968-when he ran a memorably aggressive campaign that...