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Within this system of government, which has no pretensions of being democratic, the Overseers can and do serve only as a pressure group. They grant final approval on appointments and on major statutes, but these matters are actually decided at a Faculty level and receive only a rubber-stamp from the Overseers. The presence of Overseers merely forces University officers to justify their decision intelligently to laymen--distinguished and sympathetic laymen to be sure--but still laymen...
...want a stable commune--no tourists. We even consider a Stalinist purge to reduce the mouths to feed. Only tonight does my roommate decide to occupy a building. I have about seven degrees of disdain and contempt for him but he got in before my watch. I stamp on the hand of anyone who leaves "Rush." This allows them to get back...
...heirs. As the injured man's wife, she was authorized to file a suit on his behalf-but only so long as he remained alive. The complaint was typed up at breakneck speed; the court clerk was called at home and asked to go to the courthouse and stamp it as filed. Counsel arrived at 12:15, the clerk at 12:45; by 1 p.m. the papers were duly stamped. Unfortunately, Mr. Freeman had died at 12:20. But a U.S. judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania has just ruled that the action could be considered filed...
...Riot Report's severest critics argue that sloppy research leads the Commission to base its Report on many questionable assumptions. Lending such assumptions the prestigious stamp of a Presidential Committee may in fact make violence more probable, they...
...superintendent of the hospital may request a Section 51 commitment. This is all the doctor may do, as only a judge may commit somebody on a Section 51 paper. Any patient may be represented by counsel and have a detailed hearing, which is by no means always the rubber stamp which the article implies. The reason most patients are committed under this procedure is that in practice it is seldom used except in the most difficult of cases. It should also be pointed out that two independent psychiatrists actually make the report to the judge and not the psychiatrist...