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Kkeeping secrets is an inherently suspect activity. Who would keep things secret unless there were something to hide? However, the United States has traditionally believed that exercising one's right to privacy should not incur suspicion, any more than taking the Fifth and refusing to testify should be taken as an admission of guilt. Although the right to privacy is not explicitly protected in the Bill of Rights, the U.S. has long recognized an individual's right to keep things hidden from public view...
Furthermore, because non-profit university presses routinely assume deals that might incur losses, they often do the work that commercial publishers "won't even touch," Adams says...
Students whose parents make less than $30,000 a year will incur 70 percent less debt over four years. These students will graduate owing only $7,000 in loans, versus $28,000 before the aid hike, according to a press release...
Only at one moment did Gingrich appear to back off. He suggested it might take more than a "simple human mistake" to incur impeachment. He may have feared the press might revisit the litany of his simple human mistakes of a sexual nature first detailed in Vanity Fair in September 1995. Otherwise, Gingrich went full bore, vowing at one point to "never again, as long as I am Speaker, make a speech without commenting" on the Monica mess and to start calling a crime a crime. Gingrich lieutenant majority whip Tom DeLay set up a Monica war room, the first...
...Handbook for Students offers no specific governing regulations for such cases. Though a Harvard student's unpopular speech will never incur a disciplinary response, Epps (in an interview) and former Harvard President Derek C. Bok (in a speech) have acknowledged that offensive speech might prompt an informal response on the part of an administrator...