Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scandal. Each semester undergraduates who come to Harvard expecting to be taught by some of the finest minds around put their educations in the hands of an assortment of talented and less-than-talented graduate students. The quality of one's education here is, as a result, randomly determined...
...First Amendment cases, Kennedy's opinions have pleased the press. In 1978, for example, a plaintiff who had been convicted in an insurance scandal demanded to see film of a show NBC was preparing on the case, arguing that it might inflame public opinion and jeopardize his chances of parole. A lower court ordered NBC to surrender the film, but Kennedy struck down the ruling as being "aimed toward prepublication censorship." Said the judge: "It is a fundamental principle of the First Amendment that the press may not be required to justify or defend what it prints or says until...
...hard to see how [the scandal] could help any Republican candidate," said...
Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science Emeritus, criticized Reagan's "unjustified and arbitrary use of presidential power" and "executive irresponsibility" during the scandal...
...scandal not only was harmful to the Reagan Administration, said Mylroie, but it "was a disgracc to this country's foreign policy...