Word: explicitness
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...They may have a point. As far as anyone can tell, the Justice Department has never before raided a Congressional office. And the "speech or debate" clause in the Constitution is unusually explicit in protecting the work of members of Congress. "It's never been done before and its never been legally tested," says top Republican ethics lawyer Jan Baran of the raid. He predicts that if any useful evidence was gathered it will immediately be subject to attack by Jefferson's lawyers. "The Congressman can assert that the evidence was obtained unconstitutionally," Baran says...
...with the attempt to lift the Tigua casino ban, the effort to get explicit Congressional action on Abramoff's behalf failed. But as far as Safavian is concerned the damage was done. Four days later he wrote a letter to an ethics officer at GSA asking permission to go on the Scotland trip and said airfare would be paid for by a "lobbyist" who "has no business before GSA." The Justice department cited this as evidence of obstruction and making false statements on Safavian's part when it indicted him last year. Safavian goes on trial May 22. Safavian...
...funding for non-discriminatory events organized by official student groups” and will lead to more non-discriminatory events on campus. But Finance Committee chair Lori M. Adelman ’08, who opposed the act, said that, “at the most fundamental level, funding explicit discrimination is something that the UC should not be in the business of doing.”—Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
...higher expectation of conduct (simply because of the Harvard name) without making clear what actions can knock us off that high ground. While we hope that Ad Board limits its scope solely to those actions that pertain to our lives as Harvard students, even more crucial is its explicit delineation of what actions warrant its intervention...
...Before the Ad Board takes a step as rash as disciplining a student for behavior outside her academic and extracurricular life at Harvard, it must make explicit the instances in which students are acting in their capacity as Harvard students and the instances in which they are not. Until the Ad Board defines such parameters, it has no jurisdiction over Viswanathan’s punishment, which should remain in the legal sphere. Even if she is found to have intentionally plagiarized passages from other novels, that offense, though certainly reprehensible, warrants punishment only from those whom she has offended?...