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...reorganized graduate student council may face a conflict with an ad hoc minority admissions group over student representation to a new Council on Graduate Education subcommittee, the chairman of the student council said yesterday...
Panayote Dmitros, the chairman of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Student Council, said yesterday Dean Rosovsky should select any graduate student representative to the Graduate Education Council minority admissions review subcommittee from the ranks of the Council rather than from the ad hoc group...
Michael Harris, spokesman for the ad hoc minority committee, declined yesterday to comment on the issue...
...fact that pieces of Carter's program will go to eight or more committees (including Ways and Means, Commerce, Banking, Interior, Science and Technology, and Public Works). To make sure the House produces a comprehensive bill, O'Neill has created yet another committee-the Ad Hoc Committee on Energy. Normally, the regular committees would send their recommendations to the floor piecemeal, but the Ad Hoc Committee will package all of the recommendations into one omnibus bill. More important, perhaps, the new committee will have the power to offer its own amendments to the basic bill, and could even...
...capacity. It is also possible, the author argues, that the Führer possessed a familiar characteristic of heads of state-a conscious desire "not to know", what in a later era was called deniability. "My own hypothesis," says Irving, "is that the killing was partly of an ad hoc nature ... chosen by the middle-level authorities in the eastern territories overrun by the Nazis, and partly a cynical extrapolation by the central SS authorities of Hitler's anti-Semitic decrees." Hitler, the author insists, had wanted to settle the "Jewish question" by relocating Jews in Africa or Madagascar...