Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, whose machinery can tick quietly behind the pageantry, processions and boredom of state visits. Besides, the separation is a safeguard against political demagoguery. Modern monarchy often seems to reduce the tensions to which democracy is prone. According to Sociologists Edward Shils and Michael Young in the Sociological Review, it provides an effective segregation of love and hatred. "When the love is directed toward a genuinely love-worthy object, it reduces the intensity of the hatred as well. Just as the existence of a constitutional monarchy softens the acerbity in the relations between political parties, so it also lessens...
Electronic Empire. Though Bailey was top man in his class at B.U. ('60), he graduated without honors because he refused to join the Law Review. Instead, he spent 60 hours a week running his own detective agency, which handled 2,000 cases for criminal lawyers while teaching Bailey his key skill-indefatigable investigation. After law school, Bailey attended Chicago's Keeler Polygraph Institute, then helped an elderly Boston lawyer defend an accused wife killer who had flunked a lie-detector test. Bailey was hired merely to cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss...
They feel that the emphasis on examinations -- rooted in the weight given to a student's grades -- distorts legal education. first year exam results largely determine student membership in the prestigious honorary extra-curricular ac- tivities -- the Law Review, the Board of Student Advisers, and the Legal Aid Society. And a student's numerical average - down to two decimal points -- is often the major determinant of an employer's decision to hire or reject a Harvard Law graduate...
...entire membership of the Board of Student Advisors and Legal Aid Society, and part of the membership of the Law Review should be opened up to competition among all students, the two students suggest. They also propose the establishment of a magazine that would complement the Review. They feel that opportunities for legal writing and participation in "actual" law should be opened in all cases to all the students, since exams aren't always accurate measures of such abilities...
...things as exams and parietal hours. I think we have broader common interests." Rawls said that 2-S was a Faculty issue appropriate for a number of reason: because teachers help support the deferment system by ranks and grades; because the Selective Service Law is coming up for Congressional review; and because the consequences of the 2-S deferment affect the entire university community, not just individual Faculty members