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...encouraging these organizations have not been substantiated. However no attempt has been made to restrict their mobility in and out of the US or to interfere with their activities. Their mobility and their links with the US--it seems reasonable to assume--could not be maintained without the tacit consent (or practical incompetence) of at least four agencies: INS, CIA, FBI and US Customs...
Thomas Hobbes said citizenship is based on the people's abstract consent to the authority of the state. But his theoretical notion can not capture the real emotion of submitting to the sovereignty of a new country. Although many who accept United States citizenship look upon the formal procedure with apathy, the social contract it symbolizes is a source of great enthusiasm and pride, an opportunity to begin a new life in a still very new world...
...Phillips Brooks House Association Cabinet objects to recent implications in the Crimson that PBHA literature in past student registration packets was placed there without the consent of University officials. PBHA has been placing information in the envelopes for twenty years, and in every case permission had been granted. For administrators to suggest that we stuffed the envelopes behind their backs is to distort the facts...
...bill would require owners' consent before property could be placed on the register. Harvard had objected to the inclusion of some of the buildings on the list...
...improving the image of women portrayed in the cases. Susan Carash, the committee's chairwoman, described efforts towards improvement, as "still in the embroynic stages." Unfortunately these badly needed revisions are hampered by the "historical significance" attributed to all case references and by regulations requiring the author's consent to any revisions. Even in a case published this year a female production manager's decision whether to change jobs was described as complicated by "the need to spend time with her new baby boy, her two grade school boys and her husband who had recently opened medical practice. "Such statements...