Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regular installments of payoff money to keep quiet, that he and others had been promised Executive clemency in return for their silence after serving short prison terms, and that this offer came from the White House. McCord's sources of information were Liddy and Hunt, making his own testimony hearsay and thus legally inconclusive in a criminal case. But the fact that McCord was talking broke the conspiracy of silence?and blew open the whole scandal...
...more than that, the concept of the CRR is wrong. It was set up to discipline student radicals, but it gave students no way to vent their complaints about the Faculty. It admits hearsay evidence, as no court of law does. It holds closed hearings. Its decisions cannot be appealed...
...March 1970 Resolution allows the CRR to hold closed hearings and admit hearsay evidence. If the CRR finds a student guilty, it may require the student to withdraw. Although the student cannot appeal, the student can ask the committee to rehear the case. In other words, the committee hears appeals on its own decisions...
These shortcomings become even more disturbing in light of rumors of corruption in city government. As Cambridge Democrats rally around the impeach-the-president flagpole, reports and hearsay drift up about city jobs bought and sold, spaces in public housing projects dispensed in return for favors, and city councillors paying parking tickets for major backers. City governments are seldom clean, but crushing dominance by one party makes honest government all the harder...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, from the Ken Kesey novel. I'm getting tired of recommending this on the basis of hearsay. Maybe I ought to go to see it. 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton Street in Boston...