Word: counsels
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Still, Rudenstine reflects on the university's budget difficulties only to speak in terms of "Harvard's vigorous commitment to containing costs," which has been assisted through "the perspectives and counsel of an advisory committee including senior administrators. There is little mention of the ongoing acrimony that these cost-cutting measures have entailed...
...seems, the protesters will get their way. After months of paralysis, the House Ethics Committee appears ready to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Speaker on at least some of the complaints lodged against him since he ascended to power. This amounts to Gingrich being Gingriched: it was the detective work of an outside counsel that forced then Speaker of the House, Democrat Jim Wright, to resign in disgrace in 1989. The crusading reformer agitating for the appointment of an independent counsel was none other than Gingrich. As he argued at the time, "The rules normally applied...
This time, the pressure to name an outside counsel comes from both sides of the aisle. Even the vice president of the G.O.P. freshman class, Indiana Representative Mark Souder, is pushing the idea. At the same time, Johnson has been under constant pressure to move forward ever since May, when her committee deadlocked on the issue on a 5-to-5 vote along party lines...
...does this admissions policy really violate U.S. law? According to Harvard University's General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall, the Supreme Court never clearly defined what policies do constitute a violation of the Bakke ruling, leaving the decision largely open to interpretation. In so doing, the Supreme Court has granted universities wide latitude to determine what admissions policies are necessary to ensure diversity...
...shared satisfactions in their Catholic faith. Jerry Trees, 56, a financial consultant and chair of the parish pro-life committee, says, "Rome presents the truth, the repository of faith with a history of 2,000 years, and puts things in perspective." Francis Pugh, parish council vice chair and a counsel in the state attorney general's office, offers with a laugh his view of salvation and eternal life: "I have this image that when we go to heaven we'll be greeted with a roar of applause like Cal Ripken Jr. was, and we'll do a lap around...