Word: charter
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...admitted that he was responsible for the decision to electioneer against the pro-divestment candidates for the board. Butler's memorandum smacks of the same brand of condescension and elitism. It demonstrates that Harvard has learned nothing from its disastrous effort to stifle the minimal standards of democracy its charter upholds...
...simply ignores the need for clearly mandated procedures of due process; the right to an open hearing is but a minor sop in this direction. Standards of evidence, standards of punishment, criteria for calling witnesses and cross-examining them must all be explicitly stated in the new committee's charter. To say, as the University has suggested, that the committee will make such decisions according to an evolving body of common law is to say that it will function like the CRR. The new body must guarantee an opportunity for cross-examination, and not make judgements on the basis...
...year history of the insurgency, will give the government and the rebels a chance to explore the possibilities of a longer-lasting settlement. Moreover, the truce will free Aquino to campaign for adoption of a new constitution in a plebiscite on Feb. 2. If approved, that charter will strengthen the powers of the presidency and give Aquino a firmer hand in dealing with the nation's problems...
...nonsense message came as Aquino prepared for a four-day trip to Japan this week. The President seemed unfazed by the coup rumors -- and Enrile's persistent opposition. Ignoring his calls for immediate presidential elections, she set Feb. 2 as the date for a plebiscite on a new charter that would grant her a full six-year term in office. She announced that legislative elections would be held next May 11. At midweek government negotiators reopened talks with Communist rebels, an Aquino initiative that Enrile has sharply criticized. Only one day earlier, Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila had publicly...
...Cabinet meeting, claiming that he had a cold. A few hours later, however, he held a press conference at which he urged that voters decide when they want new presidential elections. Until now, the election question has been subsumed under the larger issue of a recently drafted constitution. The charter, which grants both Aquino and Laurel six-year terms, will be put to a yes-no vote on Jan. 23. Last week Laurel turned on Aquino by proposing that the plebiscite should include a separate question on the election issue...