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...disclosure law that Ferraro was suspected of bending is to prevent conflict of interest. There is no evidence that has occurred. Yet the disclosures made and (at first) refused almost destroyed Ferraro. The ethics laws so enthusiastically enacted post-Watergate, so confidently entrusted with protecting the public weal, can also undermine it. And not surprisingly, since they are based on an illusory faith in the redemptive power of institutional arrangements. Owing to their history, Americans suffer from this touching superstition more than most people. After all, the founding fathers did practically invent the separation of powers to prevent the accumulation...
Symphony Sid, was a disc jockey for a small dawn-to-dusk radio station in Roxbury or some such place. Its signal was so weal that even in ?Cambridge it cam in as quavering and erratic as a BBC message from Winston Churchill to the French Resistance. But I strained for the sound because for fifteen minutes every day just before signoff time, Symphony Sid broadcast a kind of music I had never heard before and was not to hear anywhere else for some time. Years before Elvis Presley tumbled America into moral crisis by appearing on the Ed Sullivan...
...local division of the Department of Labor this summer issued a notification of the government's findings on WEAL's complaint. The report states that a "recent improvement in the numbers of women and minority faculty satisfy any questions raised by the complaint...
...WEAL initiated its complaints against the K-School in October of 1980 under federally-mandated affirmative action guidelines for government contractors. Because of it's federal funding, the University is considered a federal contractor under the guidelines...
...WEAL spokesman said the Labor Department's findings on the WEAL grievances reflect "what seems to be the current Reagan administration stances." "The Reagan administration has been reluctant to press private institutions on affirmative action," the spokesman said