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...legitimate. The mayor frequently signed out for the day to attend to city business--especially duties attached to the Cambridge School Committee, of which he is chairman--but the time sheets that record each employee's comings and goings are not open to the public without the employee's consent...
...already passed. "I was on my feet," protested McCloskey. "The chair will not stand for that," O'Neill thundered, adding that he had "looked in [McCloskey's] direction ... expecting someone would rise and no member rose." Although the bill had already passed, McCloskey was allowed by unanimous consent to make a belated request for a roll call; when the tally was complete, the measure had failed...
...could be driven from his home, and the city of Boston -O'Brien's employer-could get off with a negligible payment. The reason: Massachusetts is one of twelve states still clinging to an antique doctrine of sovereign immunity, which forbids lawsuits against the government without its consent. The doctrine goes back to a medieval notion that "the king can do no wrong," and was pronounced in the U.S. as a "general proposition" by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1821. In recent terms, sovereign immunity has meant that some victims of negligent state hospital officials or wild-shooting...
...Peter Paul Rubens, one of the five grand masters of 17th century painting-the others, by general consent, being Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Poussin-was born 400 years ago this summer, on June 28, 1577. This birthday has raised memorial exhibitions all over Europe. No anniversary of a comparably great figure could launch so many shows, because Rubens was so prolific. A thousand or so paintings, more than 2,000 drawings, sown from Leningrad to Washington: Rubens was the grand inseminator of the Baroque, a monster of controlled fecundity, erudition and discipline. The biggest Rubens show, the text to which...
...about the potential influence of the religious parties, which for the first time control the education portfolio. To gain the political support of the rabbis, Begin agreed to a list of 30 demands on religion-related issues, among them: autopsies will only be performed with a family's consent; women will only be able to get abortions for medical reasons instead of citing, as they now may, difficult "social or family conditions"; Sabbath observance will be tightened; girls opposed to military duty for religious reasons will find it easier to obtain exemptions...