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Several Faculty members on the Commission denied student charges. The Commission's decisions had never been designated as binding on the GSAS, they said, so student complaints had no basis. The distinction was only an academic one, however, and the six student members voted to disband the Commission after reaching a six-six deadlock...
Reductions. Despite their remarkable accomplishments, the Jesuits were suppressed in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV, and the order was disbanded for 41 years. The suppression grew out of a convergence of hatreds. The anticlerical freethinkers of the Enlightenment detested the Jesuits. So did Jansenist Catholics, who adhered to a puritanical view of man's depravity. Their most articulate spokesman was Blaise Pascal, who, in his eloquently satirical Provincial Letters, accused the Jesuits of abetting the decay of Christianity by their lax moral and ascetic teachings. Their papal loyalty, furthermore, infuriated believers in the new nationalism. A magnanimous missionary project...
...billion budget could be cut by at least one-fifth, he says, and 80% of the civil servants transferred to productive jobs "without harming the socially weak." He proposes closing all Danish embassies abroad, for example, since Denmark really has no independent foreign policy. The Danish army? Disband it, Glistrup advises. "We should replace the general staff and the Ministry of Defense with a Russian-language recording that says 'We surrender...
...student panel that was designed to elect two of its members to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and then disband voted yesterday to remain as a constituted body indelicately...
...other Western periodicals laden with enticing advertisements. East-bloc vacationers swinging through London, Rome and Paris on American Express tours are surprised to find that the greatest evils in the treacherous West are city traffic and the new platform shoes. Why, they demand, can't the Warsaw Pact disband its 94 divisions and beat its 21,000 tanks into new Volkswagens and Citro...