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...timing of the bizarre events was hardly coincidental, inasmuch as this week's yes or no on a new constitution will serve as a test of Aquino's electoral strength. If the charter is resoundingly approved, the President will be assured a full six-year term and her political opposition will be effectively neutralized until 1992. "The plebiscite is the last chance for the Marcos loyalists," says a senior Western diplomat in Manila. If Aquino fails to secure at least 65% of the vote, the opposition may demand a snap presidential election. Aquino's former Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile...
...Mouy was impressed at once by Lacroix, because of his "complete knowledge of the past, not only in fashion but in art and architecture." Lacroix's charter was to design two collections a year, according to his impulse and vision. No strings were attached, least of all purse strings. His first sketches to the millinery atelier caused shock and consternation. "Sometimes it is necessary to disturb people in order to push forward," he observes. Since he refines his ideas slowly and deliberately, most of today's headliners have antecedents in earlier collections...
...inherent rights of the student community, the Undergraduate Council will remain the anemic, ineffectual organization it is. Accomodating and unambitious council representatives regularly forego controversial confrontation and concentrate on the mundane tasks of doling out small sums of money to small student organizations. But the limits on its faculty charter and its status as a student extracurricular activity severely limit its potential. The council has the potential to serve as a responsible voice for the student community in the affairs of the College. It might play a role in the current review of the tenure system, guaranteeing that student concerns...
...Overseers. Suffering under the same delusion of Harvard's institutional grandeur, alumni, with the exception of a growing and relatively successful group of activists, view the Board of Overseers as a passive and advisory entity in the governing structure, designed to help support rather then evaluate the administration. By charter the 30 democratically elected members possess broad powers of review and oversight that promise a concerned alumni body far greater responsibility for everything from budgetary proceedings to investment policy and faculty and administration appointments. The board has the right to take back the authority it long ago ceded...
These sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the panel notified Walsh of its feelings in a letter. "The House has to make its own judgment," said one source, noting that while Walsh may take many months to complete his work, the committee's charter expires in October...