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...several years before Evans came, an ad hoc committee of teachers had been meeting every so often to discuss a redesign, but the process was bogged down...
...absence of a clear legal precedent on how to treat refugees with mental disabilities, immigration judges are adopting an ad hoc approach. On Sept. 21, a judge in York, Pa., granted the "withholding of removal" to a Chinese paranoid schizophrenic whose circumstances echo De Santiago's. He lost his residency as a result of a felony conviction. The judge found it likely that the 42-year-old man would suffer persecution in China, which advocates sterilization for the mentally ill, and agreed that the man had proved his membership in a "particular social group." A California judge issued a similar...
...says the Faculty's Docket Committee dismissed his grievances--which he had filed after being denied tenure-- without sending them to an ad-hoc panel for consideration...
...because the GOP has the formidable Condie Rice in its corner. Bill Clinton in '92 even made a selling point of the fact that his experience was in domestic, rather than foreign, policy. And after eight years of a skittish, improvisational and haphazard U.S. foreign policy unkindly called "ad hoc-racy" by its critics, Al Gore should hope the same holds true today. Then again, some of the GOP's own record and positions don't exactly reinforce its criticism of the Clinton administration...
Berkowitz's began his appeal process in August 1998, claiming that the members of the ad hoc committee did not have expertise in his teaching area...