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My colleagues are competent and consistent workers who attempt to improve undergraduate life. They do not toil solely because of that extra line on their resumes, nor do they perceive grandiose visions of power. And they definitely are not trying to protect their jobs (from what? Who would want to...
"A large task for the UC this year is to restore its image on campus as a competent body," said Randal S. Jeffrey '91, chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Divestment and a potential candidate for council chair.
To some, the case of Patricia Jones is a textbook study of medical malpractice. After all, how could any competent physician or nurse allow a woman with the symptoms of a life-threatening condition to wait for three hours? Lawyers across the city tripped over one another to file suit...
Some purists, even if they accept that values affect a judge's interpretation of the Constitution, maintain that nominees should not be rejected based on their politics so long as they are intellectually competent. But the Constitution does require the Senate give its "advice and consent" to all court nominations...
THINK of it this way. No Senator would vote to confirm a judge who would overturn Brown v. Board of Education, the decision that ended school segregation. Few Senators would support a nominee who questioned Griswold v. Connecticut (which established the right to privacy) even though intellectually competent people and...