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...peer-court concept dates back to 1947 in Mansfield, Ohio, where kids handled neighborhood trials for young bicycle snatchers. The modern youth court started to take shape in the early 1970s, when a few cities experimented with a more formal kind of peer justice. In recent years, the movement has gained momentum, cheered on by police departments and local governments eager for justice that works and does so cost effectively. An entire youth-court trial typically takes less than an hour, including deliberations. Nationally, the program's average cost per case is about $480, according to an American Youth Policy...
...March 28, Unocal CEO Williamson again spoke to Chevron's O'Reilly, telling him that he was expecting formal bids from both CNOOC and Eni in the next few days, SEC documents reveal. He also said that if Chevron wanted to get back into the game, it should make an improved offer before Unocal's board reconvened two days later. O'Reilly, again with his board's backing, complied, coming up with an improved all-stock deal...
Pike, who said he was not aware of any formal lobbying efforts on the part of the University, said the State Department had been working with the Chinese government for more than a year to finalize the arrangement. He said he could not predict whether the new policy would encourage more study abroad by either Chinese or American students...
...Board of Overseers, which predates the 1650 charter of the Harvard Corporation—Harvard’s seven-member highest governing body—advises Corporation members and provides formal approval to many of their decisions...
...black Crits. Rosenberg’s comments about his own case may be applied broadly to the climate that ruled HLS circa 2002—and probably still rules there today: “For a faculty member to be strongly criticized—and even threatened with formal sanctions—for making critical remarks about a genre of scholarship in class strikes at the very heart of academic freedom...