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...meeting with representatives of the Undergraduate Council, search committee members rebuff a request for increased student input...
...meeting with representatives of the Undergraduate Council, search committee members rebuff a request for increased student input...
...valor and elected in 1964 as a Labour Member of Parliament, Maxwell was involved in a corporate takeover battle that led Britain's Department of Trade and Industry to conclude in 1971 that he could not "be relied on to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company." The rebuff hardly stopped him: his empire embraces more than 450 companies, with interests ranging from dailies in Budapest and Nairobi to soccer teams in Britain and a pharmaceutical house in Israel...
...meeting with representatives of the Undergraduate Council, search committee members rebuff a request for increased student input in the decision-making process...
...charge of murder, however, is particularly sensitive, since it is universally regarded as among the worst of crimes. In 1989 the U.S. received a rare rebuff from the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Jens Soering, who was arrested in Britain after murdering his girlfriend's parents in Virginia in 1985. Eventually 18 Court of Human Rights judges unanimously upheld Soering's claim that his extradition would breach the European Convention on Human Rights, which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment." The judges felt that the prohibition would apply to any circumstances in which Soering might be found...