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...wanted to represent student concerns on such a divisive political issue. Now, in Berger's stead, the council will send council member Robert Weissman '88-'89 to the meeting. Weissman, who took a leave of absence last year to participate in Harvard Watch, a watchdog group sponsored by Ralph Nader, is as capable as anyone of explaining the need for an open meeting. But the council might not always be so lucky. The real problem with the council's meeting is not who is going, but that the council is going at all--and has chosen...
...Ralph Nader-sponsored organization today released a report blasting Harvard for its system of governance, saying that top-level decisionmaking remains "cloaked in secrecy...
...interview yesterday, consumer advocate Ralph Nader charged that Harvard had failed "to tap the ideas of its students. It's an institution that has established a successful restraint on the expectation levels of its students," Nader said...
...recent study by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Litigation Group claims that in most split decisions on the appeals bench, Bork favored businesses when they brought suit against the government but favored government when the plaintiff was an individual or public interest group. That raises the question of whether the principles he invokes are always "neutral." It takes a strong man never to put his intellect at the disposal of his convictions...
...Public Citizen Litigation Group, an organization founded by Nader, released a report undermining the idea that Bork practices judicial restraint. "In divisive cases, you can predict Bork's vote with virtual complete accuracy, simply by identifying the parties in the case," charges Alan Morrison, head of the Litigation Group. Reviewing the judge's appeals-court votes in 56 split decisions, the Litigation Group said that Bork consistently found for the Government when it was sued by public-interest groups, consumers or workers. But in eight decisions in which business interests challenged the Executive Branch on regulatory or labor issues, Bork...