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...Administration is consulting lawyers and may challenge the GAO findings, officials said. OMB spokesman Edwin Dale yesterday agreed that the tactics used to cut the funds were unorthodox, but added the department had "Serious legal doubts" about the GAO report which called for further investigation...
Goetz may tell his story next week to a second grand jury investigating him. The tactic is unorthodox; if he testifies (no date has yet been set), he waives immunity and anything he says can be used against him later in court. The grand jury, which was convened last week on the basis of new evidence, heard testimony from a subway passenger who contradicted Goetz's account of the shooting. Two of the gunman's victims, Troy Canty and James Ramseur, also appeared after they were granted immunity...
...committee of section leaders has made four suggestions. The first, and perhaps most important, is that the course should be governed by a committee of faculty members representing different viewpoints within the field of economics. This suggestion, while unorthodox, is uniquely suited to the problems of teaching Ec 10. It would contribute to the academic freedom of instructors and to the breadth and the depth of student's education in economics...
...calculated wispiness of Hardy's question reflects the unorthodox religiosity of the slender, unflappable scientist. Hardy says, "My heart is in the Church of England, but not my mind." He insists: "I do not think there can be any future for orthodox Christian beliefs." However, he thinks human spirituality has a great future. There is, of course, considerable skepticism about whether spiritual experiences can be studied at all with any degree of success. The late Philip Toynbee, a writer and critic and son of Historian Arnold Toynbee, wrote that Hardy's quest was the equivalent of "trying to catch...
...Jack F. Kemp (R-N.Y.) brought his boundless optimism and unorthodox brand of conservative economics to Harvard yesterday, telling more than 500 at the Business School that business growth will cure the nation's economic woes...