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...city’s legislative branch is standing by last week’s resolution lambasting Harvard’s “failure to protect” the centenarian tree, which was felled at the University’s Riverside Housing Development on Oct. 11. Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio argued that the accusations against Harvard in last week’s resolution went too far out on a limb, but the Council voted 7-1 last night to uphold the measure...
Leonard C. Alkins, president of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, expressed his concern with the selection process, questioning in particular whether a diversity policy was in place...
Meanwhile, the official celebrations were taking place last Tuesday as the executive branch rejoiced over its success in its long-running battle for control over the treatment of terrorists by the use of military commissions. June of this year had brought a bitter defeat for the administration in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which rejected the legitimacy of military tribunals and their suspension of constitutional rights. But the new Military Commissions Act now hands the president even more power than he held before this summer’s hiccup, and paves the way for more extreme behaviors...
However, the confidence in the leadership of five other sectors—Congress, the executive branch, education, religion, and business—has fallen since last year...
...study revealed that Republicans lost confidence in the executive branch of the federal government. Democrats and Independents, however...