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...notoriously weak governorship puts certain constraints on Bush (he lacks, for instance, the power for a sweeping moratorium), he's got some discretion when it comes to the death penalty: he can stay executions, and most important, he appoints Texas' powerful 18-member parole commission. All the current members owe their jobs to him. Until this week, Bush showed no inclination to temper his state's death-sentencing culture. He has scuttled a bill that would have spared the mentally challenged and vetoed one that would have provided better lawyers for indigent defendants. His justice department's website lists prisoners...
...example, the FAO has been holding exit interviews like the one Morrin attended. These sessions, held throughout May, are mandated by the federal government. During these sessions, FAO officials guided students through a thicket of colored forms detailing what they owe and when...
...owe a rather large amount of money," Morrin says. "There are things I might be interested in doing that it'll affect...
...regulations are a balance between what you owe to the University as a professor and the kind of flexibility that faculty need to carry out obligations to their professional lives," says Verba, who is also a member of the committee on outside activity...
...write books which sometimes are based on courses and that is not usually considered a conflict of interest," he says. "But if you videotape your course and sell it through a commercial university, then that is really in competition with what you owe Harvard...