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...instance, in the court, a courtier’s position was meant to be trifling amusement,” she said. “And yet in order to ensure...that you kept making your way up the echelons of power, you had to also make yourself essential...
...Board will also be given the power to exclude a student from a course, which will have the same consequences as failing a course...
Previously, a vote of the full Faculty was required to dismiss an undergraduate, but the October reforms put the power of dismissal in the hands of the Faculty Council—the highest governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The reforms were largely motivated by concerns over student privacy...
...penance for sexual abuse, you (however accidentally) slander the names of more than a billion people. Furthermore, your "specific reforms" which should be "immediately adopted," have been either already adopted or have been used and discovered to be counterproductive to the task of weeding out criminals for positions of power. Take your second reform, for instance, that bishops should have more power. Before then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's 2001 letter “Crimen Sollicitationis,” that effectively centralized reports of abuse to the Vatican (over the heads of local bishops), people like former Archbishop Bernard...
...postal service must take in more money than it spends is to treat it like a privately owned delivery company when, in reality, the USPS is a social service. Indeed, postal service is one of the fundamental functions of our government. The Constitution specifically grants Congress the power to “establish Post Offices and Post Roads” in between the powers to coin money and establish federal courts—all key components of our national unity. We are proud to have a government and a Constitution that take on this responsibility rather than leave communication throughout...