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...attorney alleged the scouts had violated state and local laws against sex discrimination, Boy Scouts of America attorney George Davidson countered, "Congress has authorized the B.S.A. to maintain a program for boys. It's not open to a state or local government to change their policies." But the congressional charter undercuts scouting's additional claims to be private, so, in discussing the case, spokesman Blake Lewis says, "The B.S.A. wasn't founded by Congress. We see this as a larger issue of our constitutional rights as a private organization...
...Visit old classmates. No doubt, many of your chums are charter members of HUBRIS, and will soon be working, going to school or "fellowshipping" in exotic and distant places. By timing your trips with precision, you can spend an entire year hopping from one buddy to another, never paying rent or hotel fees, wearing out your friends' futons (and eventually your welcome...
Another factor is the L.A.P.D.'s unique autonomy. In 1937, responding to a police scandal, the city passed a charter that in effect gave the police chief life tenure. The chief cannot be dismissed by the mayor or the five-member police commission without "cause" -- generally defined as misconduct or willful neglect of duty. This system, argues UCLA sociologist Jack Katz, has led to "a kind of organizational egocentrism." Mayor Tom Bradley, himself a former Los Angeles police officer, has had numerous run-ins with Gates and has requested on at least four occasions that the city charter be amended...
...addition, Kerrigan is one of the charter members of Peninsula, a campus conservative magazine, many of whose positions have themselves stirred up much debate since the periodical's inception last year...
...employees deliver two-tenths of 1% of our volume. We deliver in any morning what they deliver in a year. They're a different business. The Postal Service is not a business. It's a businesslike public service. I could cut out $5 billion in one day. But our charter is to provide universal, uniform service to the American people, which means everybody gets the same service at the same rate. Compared to almost any other country, we are certainly the cheapest postal service and probably the best and getting better. People don't seem to understand. Would companies compete...