Word: connors
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...Connor's October 4 editorial piece "Beyond UC Jokes" was the most uninformed, inaccurate and insulting article on the Undergraduate Council I have ever read, and his so-called reforms would be disastrous. For example, ending house representation would only decrease the accountability of the members to their constituents at a time when greater accountability is crucial...
Direct elections for individual committees and a "clearinghouse style body" are inefficient ideas that would decentralize the Council to the point of utter chaos. Connor's last suggestion of "following the money" reflects a deplorable lack of research...
...groups have been mobilizing against Souter, but they are unlikely to impede his progress -- unless he makes a major gaffe. "Souter is far too good a technical lawyer to get himself into trouble," says American University law professor Herman Schwartz. "He will do what & Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Antonin Scalia did -- dance around the issues...
...Dave Herlihy and his band, O-Positive, are far from the fringe. After years of playing the local club scene, the band recently released their first album with Epic Records, and this week opened for Sinead O'Connor concerts at Great Woods. Now, with their first video getting airplay on MTV, O-Positive seems on the verge of making the big breakthrough to the elusive Mainstream...
Once they obtain the job, clerks enter into an intimate family. The Justices tend to return the loyalty and friendship they demand of their young assistants. O'Connor, for example, takes an active interest in the personal lives of her clerks, sometimes makes lunch for them, even invites them home for Thanksgiving. Brennan always liked to mix business and pleasure over daily , freewheeling breakfast chats with his clerks. So does Justice Harry Blackmun. "He's a real baseball fan," remembers New York University law professor Vicki Been, "so there's a lot of talk about the previous day's scores...