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...with vagueness: under its provisions, for example, the CRR can judge whether a student has shown "gave disrespect for the dignity of others" and expel him on that subjective basis. The University is far more likely to use the CRR to punish political demonstrators of the future than to uphold human dignity...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: CRR, Again and Again | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

Committee member Sara M. Berman called the amendment "a great step backwards" yesterday, adding that it would allow "only those who can finance busing on their own to uphold...

Author: By Judith A. Rosen, | Title: Busing Bill Will Not Affect Cambridge | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

Confident the court will uphold his takeover, King now is doing little to develop contingency plans. "We are on hold like everything else," Gerard Morris, King's press secretary, said yesterday...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: MBTA Funding Remains Precarious As King Awaits High Court's Decision | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

...least one team continues to uphold the local tradition of ineptitude. And luckily for Harvard, that is the Penn football team. Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania and rumour has it around here that the last time the Quakers had a winning season Old Ben himself led the cheering. The Penn seniors who have played for three years have won three games and lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Journeys to a Soft Pretzel of a City | 11/15/1980 | See Source »

...private lawyers handling most of the cases for Nixon are Herbert Jack Miller, 56, and R. Stan Mortenson, 35. They charge their famous client up to $225 an hour, not unusual for accomplished legal help. Mortenson warns that if the Supreme Court fails to uphold the former President's position in Halperin, any President could be "fair game" in the future. Jimmy Carter, for example, could be sued by any Olympic athlete claiming his career had been blighted. That legal logic does not impress Bruce Ennis, the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Halperin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Richard Nixon's Tangled Web | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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