Word: consent
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...general consent, Jean-Siméon Chardin was one of the supreme artists of the 18th century, and probably the greatest master of still life in the history of painting. Yet there has not been, until now, a full-dress retrospective of his work. To mark the 200th anniversary of his death, at the age of 80 in 1779, a huge Chardin show opened in January at the Grand Palais in his native Paris, with 142 paintings, drawings and pastels, and a catalogue by one of Europe's most distinguished art historians, Pierre Rosenberg. Two American institutions took part...
Harvard countered the charges with cautious defiance, but some class members recall times when administrators forced students to consent to the Harvard line on McCarthyism. Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Calif.) remembers being "upset when the Harvard administration was very accommodating to him [McCarthy]." Beilenson and other members of the Committee on Academic Freedom, a part of the Student Council, passed a motion of censure against the administration. But after McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty, met with members of the committee, it withdrew the censure. The Council disbanded the Committee on Academic Freedom a few days later because...
...lawyers believed such a case, with no patient consent, was a legal matter. It involved one individual taking the life of another, and required the impartial weighing of all the relevant facts to determine what the patient would have wanted, which only a court can accomplish. The relevant facts would include expert medical testimony, the best estimates of the values and beliefs of the patient concerning medical care, and the pain that he would have to endure without knowing...
...West Bank Palestinians are understandably furious over Begin's proposals. Anwar Nuseibeh, a former Jordanian Defense Minister who is now an attorney in East Jerusalem, argues that the plan calls for "a perpetuation of the present occupation without our consent." In the current bitterness, the forthcoming negotiations on Palestinian autonomy, to be attended by Egyptian, Israeli and American officials, are dismissed by virtually all West Bank Arabs as irrelevant...
This attitude is dangerous and unacceptable. University administrators are supposed to take the day-to-day tasks off the hands of the faculty and students, who will then have time to pursue their intellectual endeavors; the administration is to rule only by the consent of those it is supposed to serve. Instead, Bok's logic--clearly evinced by his refusal to respond to the stock divestiture issue--gives the administration and Corporation a free hand to rule in what they decide is in the general interest, even if many concerned members of the University disagree. Bok answers...