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Many particpants laud the University's effort to reach beyond the academic world. "It's very constructive. Harvard has a responsibility to communicate more widely than just the academic world," says D. Quinn Mills, Weatherhead Professor of Business Administration...
Meese's passion for intent is so great that he has praised Marshall for it, even in Marbury vs. Madison. Meese has also managed to laud the decision on McCulloch vs. Maryland in 1819 as an exemplar of intent--the intent, says Meese, to leave lawmaking to Congress. Yet the primary effect of McCulloch, which rejected a state challenge to the national bank, was to affirm federal power over the states in any fundamental legal confrontation. In his opinion, Marshall inveighed against "the baneful influence of . . . narrow construction on all the operations of the government." Despite these heavy wounds, both...
...greatest confounder of moral and philosophical principles and dilemmas; it is not the occasion for lavish and indiscriminate bestowing of moral awards. A true conservative mind devoted to careful thought and pensive reflection would not offer such rash laud as did the President. No doubt, war has throughout history inspired in many individuals some of the noblest of moral traits: courage, loyalty, valor, honor, selflessness. These are not the traits embodied by the Contras, an outfit supported not only by the United States but by cocaine smuggling as well...
Outsiders were quicker to defend the band's actions, than band members themselves. "It's the instituted tastelessness we all prize and laud in our Band," said Miriam R. Pelikan '89. "That's what we love them...
When President Bok lent his "personal support" to Senator Kennedy's bill to limit U.S. corporations' investment in South Africa, he took the opportunity to laud Harvard's own policies on South African investment. According to Bok"...much of $635 [the Kennedy bill] parallels the policies Harvard has developed as a shareholder in firms doing business in South Africa. As does your bill, we have consistently opposed bank loans to the South African government or its subsidiary organizations...