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...Lacking textual support," the court continued, "counsel for the President would have us infer immunity from the President's political mandate or from his vulnerability to impeachment or from his discretionary powers. These are invitations to refashion the Constitution, and we reject them. Though the President is elected by nationwide ballot and is often said to represent all the people, he does not embody the nation's sovereignty. He is not above the law's commands. Sovereignty remains at all times with the people, and they do not forfeit through elections the right to have...
IRRC may contribute to a problem among institutions like Harvard which have yet to establish strategies to promote corporate responsibility Such shareholders may infer from the IRRC approach that the mere act of voting on resolutions is a sufficient demonstration of social concern...
...various published interviews with Bob Dylan are the most exciting parts of the anthology. His esoteric clowning occasionally seems clumsily arrogant, though the stupidity of some questions makes his reactions understandable. One can infer from a later interview in Rolling Stone that Dylan's attitude has become more cooperative even if his explanations are still characteristically elliptical. Inferring the development of an individual's personality from interviews like these is dangerous, however, especially since Dylan takes himself less seriously than did his interviewers...
...straightforwardly enough on January 10, 1972 with a simple memo from Moos to Epps requesting Harvard facilities for "a Convention on Racism." (Note that in this early missive no preconceived normative judgements concerning racism are implied.) Little can be said about this opening volley; it would be unfair to infer a subtle threat when Moos continues the SDS tradition of relating better to administration buildings than to their occupants by saying: "I or other members of SDS would like to discuss costs and other arrangements with your office." One problem is that this is the only document in the collection...
...most demanding schools in Paris. "I think I am pretty safe in saying," wrote a friend, "that from his adolescence, every day of Vuillard's life has presented itself to him in the rainbow light of a moral predicament . . . Vuillard takes everything to heart." One might not infer that from Vuillard's subject matter, which conjures an intimate world of material satisfactions: the Third Republic interiors, with their mottled wallpaper and yellow light glowing thickly on well-stuffed chairs: the clutter of books, statuettes, lamps, dishes, forks; the poetry of possession. One of his portrait subjects is said...