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...with sabotaging the proper functioning of honest government at home. Governmental accountability is the central principle in American democracy, and as it is such an essential principle, it should be willingly and gladly upheld—especially by those in the upper echelons of power. The current administration should avoid even the appearance of impropriety rather than leave the American people to guess at some documents’ possibly damning contents...
...addition, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an independent organization composed of faculty from across the country, calls for untenured faculty to be notified of tenure possibilities within six years of accepting a junior professorship. This policy is designed to avoid stringing along junior professors in the belief that they could receive tenure. Harvard also ignored this sensible policy in Vaux’s case—he should have been told at least a year...
...their slacker-lawyer handbook, the work-averse authors include tips on how to obtain reading summaries and avoid classes with mandatory attendance. Still, Marquart and Byrnes are pleased with the way they spent their sizable tuition. “I would recommend law school to anyone,” Byrnes says. “It was a great three-year vacation?...
While the two authors seem to possess little rationale for becoming lawyers (Byrnes’ dream is to open a bike messenger company), they do know why they wrote this book. “We had to avoid being big, fat, drunk law partners in 20 years,” Byrnes jokes. “We thought about doing a radio show but any jackass can write a book...
...under pressure from some of his own tribal allies over the allocation of spoils, and disaffected elements are being courted by more militant opponents of the new government. A landscape teeming with posses of armed fighters of fluid loyalty may already be challenging the U.S. military's determination to avoid involvement in inter-Afghan power struggles...