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Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, who chairs the CCL, said yesterday that there may be grounds on which to overturn Davis' petition if there was a real question about whether people were endorsing all the things...
That's right--Walsh has refused to resign from his post on the council after being found guilty of enough crimes to put him in prison for two lifetimes. Apparently, he believes that he can overturn all 41 convictions and the results of a four-year federal investigation. Perhaps another jury or judge will have more sympathy for the protracted soliloquies Walsh delivered about his immigrant parents, his dedicated work habits and the fulfillment of his own American dream. The evidence in the trial, however, conveys only that Walsh was dedicated to the systematic execution of criminal acts...
...according to Undergraduate Council bylaws, only a three-fourths majority of the council can overturn the results of such a student referendum...
...heavily armed. Especially visible among the 450 Jewish residents are 150 students of the Shavei Hebron Yeshiva: in pairs or threes they patrol the roads connecting the settler enclaves, assault rifles slung over their shoulders. As they saunter through the streets, Arab merchants grow anxious. The yeshiva boys frequently overturn their stalls or bash their cars. "It's a daily business the trouble they make," says shopkeeper Mohamad Sharif. The settlers admit to these actions, but say they commit them only when provoked...
Even if it doesn't force you to overturn all you prior convictions about art and the universe, the Fogg show does illustrate the development of a small national artistic community through one of the most tumultuous epochs in the history of European painting. The assembled works provide an overview of the transition that was taking place across the Western world from traditional eighteenth century portraiture, through a school of the national landscape, to proto-Impressionsim. Kobke's Copy of Eckersberg's Portrait of Thorvaldsen (1828) boasts an intense dramatic tone, vaguely reminiscent of David or other French portraitists...