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...concerns appearances. The independent-counsel law, enacted 15 years ago in the wake of Watergate, was a response to the public's growing distrust of its leaders. The law accepted the assumption that an Administration should not investigate itself. It understood that a government deriving its legitimacy from the consent of the governed must not only act forthrightly but appear to do so. Indeed, the Sentelle panel adopted this exact rationale to ax Fiske, who had been appointed by Clinton's Justice Department. The statute, the judges said, "contemplates an apparent as well as an actual independence on the part...
...ordinarily passed along to the mother. In fact, the testing is generally done on a blind basis; the blood samples are identified by number, and not even the hospital staff knows which babies tested positive. Unless the mother requests HIV screening ahead of time and signals her consent, she won't be told the results of the test. She may go home from the hospital not knowing that aids stalks her and her child...
...policy, adopted by the Corporation in 1981, says a committee on human subject research may waive the requirement of informed consent under certain circumstances...
Harvard and the other Ivy League schools decided in 1991 not to fight the government. They signed a "consent decree" under which they agreed to stop the joint setting of financial aid awards MIT, however, decided to contest the government's decision...
When the council's executive board discussed the "Viggiani report"--an administrative committee report recommending "expressed consent" as the standard for permissible sex--most male council members who casually discussed the proposal dismissed any change in date rape policy without a thought, Prabhu said. "They didn't think that the issue should be dealt with in a more comprehensive way," she says. Some of the women present for the discussion started to cry, she says, "because we couldn't get men at the council to understand...