Word: validness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good idea. The speakers include William McKinley, McKinley's Secretary of State John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Adams, William Randolph Hearst and Henry James, who comes onstage briefly to wonder, "How can we, who cannot honestly govern ourselves, take up the task of governing others?" James' point is valid, but the outcome of the debate is never in doubt...
State Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge), who was a Harvard Loeb fellow says there are valid explainations for the negative views some politicians hold toward the University...
...effect been put under a microscope and then dissected, like "some extraordinary creature." Just so. In selecting a President, voters must judge not only a man's resume and policies but also his character. Yet what constitutes character? When is an inquiry into a politician's private behavior valid, and when is it an intrusion that says nothing about his abilities...
...letter a week ago, Bok told the groups that requests for earlier release of Harvard documents were "valid...in light of experience and practice elsewhere." Bok said that the rule would apply only to future documents and would have no retroactive effect on documents that are already in the University archives...
That may be, the court replied, but state death-penalty laws still cannot be held on that basis to violate 14th Amendment guarantees of equal protection under the law. Writing for a 5-to-4 majority, Justice Lewis Powell assumed that the study was valid but said it did not prove discrimination in McCleskey's case or in Georgia's death sentencing generally. "Because discretion is essential to the criminal justice process, we would demand exceptionally clear proof before we would infer that the discretion has been abused." To raise successful equal-protection objections, a defendant has to prove discrimination...