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...been charged with breaking a 1784 state law—prohibiting lewd conduct that shocks and alarms an unsuspecting or unwilling public??which the Cambridge District Court then declared unconstitutional on the basis that the law was overbroad...
Marital erosion is especially rampant in the celebrity world, where competing careers and the relentless scrutiny of the public??s microscope drive couples apart almost instantly. By contrast, in the political sphere, it seems that “I do” still means forever. Nowhere is this peculiarity more apparent than in the wake of a high-profile political sex scandal...
...longer has access to the school committee’s group e-mail.”Walser said that it is “truly false” that communications with the school committee should always remain private, and said the current committee is “misleading the public?? by such statements. Some members of the public were riled by administrative actions.“The behavior shows a complete and utter lapse of professional standards,” said Elizabeth H. Dionne, a parent of four children in the district. “He should have...
Neither does Harvard exercise hegemonic authority over the direction of academic research. According to the 2007 report of the Harvard Management Company, the university received 80 percent of its sponsored research funding from the federal government and 12 percent from foundations. These statistics indicate that public??rather than private—discretion overwhelming dictates the areas toward which Harvard’s research budget is directed. Not only does federal funding often come with strings attached, but it also flows essentially from taxpayers; this makes Harvard theoretically more responsible to the public than if its funding were completely...
Taking the history of the public??s reaction to no-smoking policies into account, Brandt said that he does not foresee much difficulty in enforcing the new regulations...