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...Marcos and Aquino prepared last week for the formal launching of their campaigns, a cloud hung over the entire enterprise. Marcos opponents have filed ten petitions before the Supreme Court seeking to cancel the election because the President has refused to resign before it is held, as required under the constitution. The petitioners hope to delay the vote and thereby win the opposition more campaign time. But the ploy could backfire. If it begins to appear that either opposition candidate might outpoll the President, the Supreme Court, which is dominated by Marcos appointees, might declare the election null and void...
...apparent inconsistency in the rules of the program itself. It appears that the one prefect was excused for his actions simply because of his lack of knowledge, and it's unclear whether the other, who had heard Dean Moses's injunction not to date freshmen, was forced to resign or merely urged to do so. There should be no equivocation, and no double standard: The prefects should all be told that there is no place for romance in this type of advising atmosphere, and that when there is an infraction of this rule resignation is required...
...benign vestiges of Harvard's aristocratic past. Students should express dismay when they find out that a friend is considering joining a club. Women should stop accepting the status quo and should refuse to enter clubs which by their very existence encourage demeaning and sexist attitudes. Present members should resign from the clubs because of the clubs' immoral foundations...
...program's guidelines call for prefects who begin dating their advisees to resign. Council officers said the prefect who was reassigned for violating the rule was not asked to resign because he was not present when the rule was discussed at the principal prefect training session...
...parliament, the Prime Minister delivered a spirited defense of his actions during the hijacking ordeal. Then Craxi made the five-minute trip to President Francesco Cossiga's Quirinale Palace to resign. Craxi's government had served 26 months, which was one month shy of the tenure record for the 44 governments Italy has had in the past 39 years. Instead, the outgoing coalition earned a new distinction: it was the first one to fall owing to a foreign policy crisis rather than a domestic one. At week's end Cossiga was carrying on discussions with all of the country...