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...currently hold basement space, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, the First-Year Outdoor Program, several peer counseling groups, and the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) will keep their current basement offices, according to Frano Violich, an architect from the firm that will conduct the renovations of both the Yard basements and the Hilles building...
...universities are fantastically hierarchical places that are ever more caught up in competing with one another for faculty stars, whom they lure less with money and perquisites than with freedom to conduct research, which usually means light teaching loads and lots of graduate students to do scut work. Summers, scion of a family in the academic discipline with the highest pay and lowest workload of them all--economics--grew up and succeeded spectacularly in this culture. Harvard on his watch enthusiastically raided other universities for top talent. Its professors are among the highest paid in American academe; they teach only...
...When a congressmen face criminal charges, they often argue in court-usually unsuccessfully-that their conduct in Congress should be adjudicated by the ethics committee (which can?t throw anyone in jail) rather than the criminal court system. The underpinning of this is a provision of the Constitution, intended to keep Congress independent, that ?granted a limited immunity to Members of Congress from prosecution when the conduct involved official legislative activities. The so-called ?speech or debate? clause immunity provides that a Member ?shall not be questioned in any other place? concerning official legislative conduct,? as a congressional report explains...
...attorney who has often represented elected officials caught in ethics cases, said Justice may be ?saber rattling? since the ethics panels cover congressional rules and not criminal offenses, which are Justice's province alone. But if Justice is really just trying to warn Congress to crack down on sleazy conduct, ?I think they're correct.... Not only the Department of Justice, but I think the public is telling Congress: if you're going to have some rules make sure people obey them...
...House and Senate ethics committees-the only panels with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, regardless of who holds the majority-enforce the ethics rules each chamber sets up to govern members? conduct. This runs from governing the use of official expense accounts and payroll to determining when a congressman or an aide must recuse himself from official action to avoid a conflict (answer: rarely). The most basic stricture of House ethics guidelines gives the ethics committee leeway to act or not act in almost any case. It requires that a congressman ?shall conduct himself at all times...