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Peter Levitas, a third-year law student who is one of the group's charter members, said that the group's formation was motivated by a productive discussion of a pro bono requirement at Harvard Law School last year...
...this time Silverado managers had little doubt about what was coming, even though their doors were still open. In January 1988 Wise asked the board of directors, including Bush, to sign a letter to the federal regulators asking that Silverado's charter be amended so they could take advantage of a state law under which corporate boards can exempt themselves from personal liability if they are found to have breached their fiduciary duties...
Sanctions mandated by the Security Council would be compulsory for all members. That would make it easier for Japan and some European countries heavily dependent on Middle Eastern oil to take a stand against Iraq. Articles 41 and 42 of the U.N. Charter allow the imposition of a total embargo against an offending state and "action by air, sea or land forces" to restore peace and security...
...question that few asked immediately was how that successor would be chosen. After all, the process seems simple enough: a charter in effect since 1650 leaves the choice in the hands of the seven Fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University's top governing board...
...Yalta may have had certain drawbacks, but it was an arrangement one had learned to live with -- and in the end any situation seemed acceptable as long as it was "under control." Was it not a bit inconsiderate on the part of all those Poles, Hungarians and Czechs, of Charter 77 and all, to rock the boat? And now even the placid, nondescript East Germans were taking to the streets, without giving a thought to the delicate balance of power prevailing in the Old World, to the problems of NATO, to the risk involved in any sort of change...