Word: rubberstamp
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...research into fields that are geopolitically significant, but not traditional foci of academic interest. By enabling interested scholars to pursue research in these areas and cultures, the nation comes to possess an objective, broad-based knowledge of the regions in question. Politicizing these scholars and forcing them to rubberstamp political faits accomplis would make their advice useless. Politicians already have their yes-men; academics serve a different purpose...
...Overseers are elected by the University’s alumni, but their authority is limited—they rubberstamp the most important decisions made by the Harvard Corporation. When the Overseers confirmed Lawrence H. Summers as the University’s next leader, they were notified only days before the vote—giving them hardly any chance to scrutinize the candidate. The all-powerful and extremely secretive Harvard Corporation chooses its own members—making it accountable only to itself...