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...mayor, who was sworn in and began his term immediately after the vote, is a member of the conservative Independent faction of the council. Sullivan became mayor for the third time in his career--50 years to the day after his late father, Michael, took the oath of office as the council's chairman...
...politicizing the law does not mean adding new radical elements, but rather drawing out into the open what is already there. Conservatives charge that the CLS faction of the Law School faculty has "manipulated" the tenure process to hire more left faculty members. But how can anybody claim that CLS proponents have perverted something for which there is no objective norm, something that is already a debate and a political process? The reasonableness of the tenure process--likewise of the "science" of legal analysis which presumes to logically deduce the one right answer to legal questions--only enshrines existing power...
...anti-P.L.O. mission early last week. The fighters blasted P.L.O. targets that Israeli officials termed "terrorist bases" near the town of Bar Elias in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley. The bases apparently belonged to the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a dissident faction of the P.L.O. The raid came only a day before Hussein's meeting with Arafat...
...issue of rent control becomes crucial because of the form of city government. Most legislation requires a five-member majority on the city council, but rent control issues require six votes to institute change. For years, neither the CCA nor the conservative faction has been able to gain a majority on the council...
...issue of rent control becomes crucial because of the form of city government. Most legislation requires a five-member majority on the city council, but rent control issues require six votes to institute change. For years, neither the CCA nor the conservative faction has been able to gain a majority on the council...