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...School, President Bok has overriden the recommendations of faculty by denying tenure to critical scholars. Most recently, President Bok again overrode faculty to appoint a new Dean whose stated goal is to "combat" critical views in jurisprudence. Newly appointed Dean Clark also spoke scathingly of Professor Derrick Bell's sit-in protest against suppression of critical views (Bell is one of two tenured Black professors at the Law School). Said Clark, "This is a university--not a lunch counter in the Deep South." President Bok's continued efforts to purge the Law School of Critical Legal Studies (itself an outgrowth...
...common necessaries of life." If the relationship breaks up, a person must inform the city and wait six months before claiming a new partner. Mayor Dianne Feinstein has not yet signed the legislation, but since it passed by an 8-to-3 vote, her veto would probably be overriden...
...King said he will sign barring any unexpected hitches in a final review of the bill, would allow local voters to partially override the cuts mandated by Prop 2 1/2 with a majority vote. If two-thirds voted against 2 1/2 in a referendum, the cuts would be totally overriden...
Chosen for five-year terms by the village elders will be 150 male members of a National Assembly and six women picked by newly established provincial assemblies in East and West Pakistan. The President must approve all legislation, and his veto can be overriden by only a two-thirds vote; the budget must be accepted or rejected as a single pack age with no debate on individual allocations. The President can dissolve the Assembly, but if he does so, he must stand for re-election within 120 days. To placate sensitive East Pakistan-divided from the western section...
...have nailed up signs that read 'Keep Out.' " The enthusiasm of the audience mounted as Ike pounded ahead: "Thousands upon thousands of Republican voters-an overwhelming majority of them-were deliberately and ruthlessly disenfranchised. Majority rule, the very basis of our free government, was here flouted and overriden." Then Ike drew the moral: "No party can clean up the Government of the United States unless that party-from top to bottom-is clean itself...