Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"The CCSR looks to precedent and to where Harvard has been on an issue. The ASCR is trying to bring up new points of view on issues," said Elizabeth A. Gray, secretary to the CCSR and senior associate secretary of the Board of Overseers.
Last week, the Boston School Committee voted to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a recent federal court decision striking down racial preferences in admissions to the Boston Latin School, the city's most prestigious public high school. If the high court decides to hear the case, it would be...
It is a culture for which Suharto, Indonesia's dictator of 32 years, bears much responsibility. Six months ago Suharto was ousted, leaving behind a weak successor as President--B.J. Habibie--a paralyzed economy, a military discredited for killing student demonstrators and a nation struggling to find some vision of...
Concerns of those counseling caution range from avoiding a precedent of cross-border political extradition to fear of destabilizing Chile. Then there's the case of the 1976 car bomb in Washington, D.C., that killed Chilean exile Orlando Letelier and American citizen Roni Moffit. "There's already strong circumstantial evidence...
The only explanation came from Rep. Steve Chabot. "I think we're just going forth, trying to make sure that we've got all the evidence," offered the Ohio Republican. "I think that we're making some real progress." Although the direction of that progress was unclear, committee chair Henry...