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...house, so they tend to have a somewhatlarger impact on students' intellectual lives. Thevast majority of students say they know theresident graduate students in non-intellectualsettings, such as intramurals and weeklygatherings for milk and cookies. But someundergraduates add that once they know the tutors,they are more likely to consult them for academicadvice and discuss their intellectual interests...
...think soon the president will focus on recommendations for a nomination," Baker said just before the Senate vote. "I would estimate that may be as early as Monday. But I also think the president will not make a decision ... until after there has been an opportunity to consult with the leadership and the relevant jurisdictional Republicans...
...Within the past three weeks, Botha has unveiled the last two such measures on his list: an amendment that would give the country's strictly segregated communities the local option of admitting residents of more than one race, and a plan to form a multiracial National Council to consult on the outline of a new constitution. Both proposals have been rejected as tokenism by black antiapartheid groups...
...incredulous Liman asked the witness why he did not say, "I, Admiral Poindexter, made the decision and did not tell the President of the United States." Poindexter's lame reply: although he gave the notion "a lot of thought," he waited to consult his attorneys. The result, as Senator Rudman pointed out, was "the agony that we've had for the last eight months" as Reagan was battered with questions about his role in the scandal...
...would never tolerate the brutality of the criminal punishments that were prevalent 200 years ago -- brandings, say, or the puncturing of nostrils. Notes Federal Appeals Court Judge Irving Kaufman: "I regard reliance on original intent to be a largely specious mode of interpretation. I often find it instructive to consult the framers when I am called upon to interpret the Constitution. But it is the beginning of my inquiry, not the end . . . The framers' legacy to modern times is the language and spirit of the Constitution, not the conflict and dated conceptions that lay beneath that language...