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...well. If the staff is concerned with student welfare, it should not endorse a horrific precedent whereby the results of a student referendum can be ignored whenever it looks like a good idea at the time. The council's responsibility is to act on student preferences, not to disregard them; if it has forgotten that role, then Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and the Faculty should keep it in mind and refuse to impose a termbill hike on an unconsulted student body...
...being sued for a "willful disregard for the rights of males...
None of these bills eventually became law. But the message they send--other than a contemptuous disregard for the states' right to protect workers and consumers--is that the GOP-dominated House has little interest in those disadvantaged by an expensive legal system. Large manufacturers don't need these get-out-of-jail-free cards; meanwhile, consumers and citizens looking to the courts for protection are increasingly coming away empty. In 1996, Congress cut by a quarter the funding of the Legal Services Corporation, which helps the poor find lawyers in civil cases. That same year, Congress prohibited Legal Services...
...establishment's owners, Mary-Catherine Deibel and Deborah Hughes say they have always paid their rent. Deibel and Hughes have hired an attorney and sent a letter to the community alleging that "Harvard University and the Hasty Pudding Institute are attempting to disregard the extension [of our lease...
...Defense, both of which Republicans support even more fervently than Democrats. It repeatedly mentions Russia's objections to unilateral U.S. action but then criticizes the administration for pursuing consensus-building with Moscow and others. Those contradictions, combined with breathless, vituperative language, obscure valid points, like the administration's studious disregard for Russian atrocities in Chechnya and its failure to achieve any new arms control agreements with the Russians over eight years...