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President Bok's decision to uphold the denial of tenure to Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton did not consider whether she had been a victim of gender discrimination, Bok said in a memo to the Law School faculty Wednesday...
Dublin was also shocked by a British appeals court's decision in late January to uphold the convictions of six men, all Catholics of Ulster origin, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for two terrorist bombings in Birmingham in 1974. The defendants had charged that their confessions were extracted under duress; in any case, new evidence had emerged casting doubt on their guilt. Dublin was dismayed again last week when Private Ian Thain, the ) only British soldier convicted of a murder committed during the course of duty in Northern Ireland, was paroled after serving less than 2 1/2 years...
...draft of the SASC letter pleads for the Overseers to uphold the "moral integrity of the University" when they consider divestment, said SASC member Jaron Bourke...
...member of any minority group has a respected human and legal right to participate and be considered as an equal member of an informed debate. It is this commitment to truly equal representation which my statement regarding the final clubs clearly reflects, and which I am quite proud to uphold and defend as the vice chairperson of the Undergraduate Council. I find it truly difficult to understand why such a thought is so upsetting to Mr. Orenstein. Jeffrey A. Cooper '90, Undergraduate Council Vice Chairman
...lower. No such luck. U.S. District Attorney Rudolph Giuliani maintains that even though the spotlight has shifted elsewhere, the investigations are proceeding at full speed. Says the Manhattan-based prosecutor, who has led the crackdown on Wall Street crooks: "Whatever the state of the market, our job is to uphold the laws of the U.S. -- not to protect profits...