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...short survey of recent adjustments to college life should suffice: in-suite fireplaces sealed up, the House lottery completely randomized, and an unspoken tolerance of underage drinking imperiously overridden. Even these more trivial, yet preciously guarded, traditions of Harvard life have garnered the wrath of the postmodern social engineers who run this University...
...Generally speaking, executive privilege is the President's right to withhold certain information from Congress, the courts and most anyone else, even in the face of a subpoena. It's a conditional privilege, meaning it can be overridden in some circumstances, such as when the President is the target of a criminal investigation. That's why President Nixon famously lost his 1974 struggle in the U.S. Supreme Court to keep the Watergate tapes private. But the courts are typically deferential to the privilege, presuming that it holds unless someone can prove an overwhelming interest in obtaining the information...
...unprecedented show of defiance, the city council broke ranks with the mayor, passing an ordinance to boost the wages that Big Box employers like Wal-Mart and Target would have to pay. In the end, Daley persuaded enough aldermen to reverse positions to ensure his veto wouldn't be overridden, demonstrating that "da Mayor" was still very much the boss...
...psychedelic mushrooms living high in Mather Tower, for instance, is not interested in padding his clientele with the young learners of Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary far below. In these instances, the judiciary’s function of meting out well-contemplated, proportional justice to offenders has been completely overridden by a mandatory sentence out of all proportion to the crime committed. What logic, for instance, explains why a joint smoked in Winthrop H entry earns a sentence of at least two additional years in jail compared to the same joint smoked in Winthrop’s C entry...
...bank robbers come barging into the bank manager's home, take everybody hostage and order Dad to pop the safe at the branch office. But there's a time lock on the vault, which can not be overridden. That permits everyone to hang around in the living room, getting to know one another while the miscreants eat all the Wheaties. Eventually, Dad proves to be not quite the doofus he seems to be, the plot is foiled, and bourgeois order is restored to 79 Wistful Vista Drive...