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Financial Crisis. Then why the lawsuit? The university explained that its contract with the faculty allows it to fire professors -even those with tenure-on grounds of incompetence or "financial exigency"; the suit seeks to establish that a bona fide financial crisis does in fact exist. "Unless this matter is dealt with by a declaratory judgment," says the complaint, the university "will be faced with hundreds of different claims . . . which would in turn result in absolutely unbearable economic, legal and administrative burdens...
Bain is a weak scorer. "That's one of our problems," Bilik said, while Pingree is more of a swingman than a bona fide forward. Harvard matches up evenly against the Chiefs in size but it is doubtful Springfield can keep the lid on Tony Jenkins and Lou Silver...
...conference concluded that a journalist, whom the conferees defined as anyone employed in a newsgathering capacity by a periodic medium or a scholar or researcher in a bona fide capacity with intent to disseminate, should have a broad legal privilege to protect confidential information and sources...
With all this going for him, plus his booming endzone kickoffs with their sixsecond hang time (the pros are happy with four) and another year to perfect his moves, he could be, barring a serious injury, Harvard's first bona fide pro superstar. Unless the rest of the country still thinks Ivy League football is rinky-dink, he deserves nothing short of All-American this year...
...What makes Richard Nixon such a fascinating figure is his beelike ability to avoid the swatter and still deliver the sting. Virtually against the full weight of public opinion, he has often outmaneuvered his opponents and preserved the appearance of bona fide leadership. But he is a flawed and faulted figure today because he does not understand the American society of the '70s. He has failed to perceive that the turbulence of the preceding decade ushered in a new era of public accountability in which previous standards of political conduct are no longer acceptable...