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Officer Kevin Bryant then identified the group walking near Oxford and Hammond Streets. Police found the graduate student's four $20 bills on one of the teens and the knife in nearby bushes, authorities said. Each teen was charged with assault and battery and armed robbery...
...have to put it out with is a teaspoon of water." What could have a drenching effect on the term-limits movement, however, is the Supreme Court. Officeholders will keenly be following the oral arguments this week in the case of U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton and Bryant v. Hill, which will be the first tests of the constitutionality of such limits. The cases involve a constitutional amendment passed by Arkansas voters in 1992 that limits U.S. Representatives to three two-year terms and Senators to two six-year terms. The amendment in question states, "The people of Arkansas find...
Opponents of term limits argue that Americans have always had the power to turn incumbents out of office -- by voting. It's not that simple, says Cleta Deatherage Mitchell, the general counsel for the Term Limits Legal Institute and co-counsel in Bryant v. Hill. "Incumbents have such enormous advantages that it makes the whole notion of competitive elections a mockery," she says. "It almost takes a national temper tantrum to dislodge incumbents." Meanwhile, Rotunda points to the existence of one federal-term limit -- the two terms of the President. "The nation has survived, indeed flourished," he adds. Furthermore, there...
President James Bryant Conant '14 and later Nathan M. Pusey '28 gave McCarthy little ground. While the administration forbade the hiring of current Communists, it refused to discriminate based on past association with the Communist Party...
...providing undergraduate education. Under President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, Harvard's curriculum changed from historic humanistic breadth to an elective system of instruction. Fields of concentration and distribution requirements were started in the era of President A. Lawrence Lowell. Next came President James Bryant Conant '14, who implemented the General Education program...