Word: followed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What if a U.S. soldier is actually ordered to commit an atrocity? According to the U.S. Manual for Courts-Martial, he is justified in not following an order if "a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal." The trouble is that such echoes of Nürnberg are drowned out by every drill sergeant's most basic lesson-instant obedience. Under military law, in fact, a man who refuses to follow an order is presumed guilty of this offense until he proves that the order was illegal at his subsequent court-martial. Disobedience...
While the Committee on the Role of the Faculty approved the current system of House Committees, it proposed that other Houses follow Eliot House in instituting a House Council...
...attempt to unify these views may easily degenerate into a hodge-podge of compromising half-steps-manifested in a general report that comments on Harvard education but makes no recommendations, or a set of specific, yet conflicting proposals that follow no cohesive pattern...
...richest museum in the nation, the Metropolitan still must face a deficit this year. A major drive for capital funds is expected to follow its current centennial celebrations...
...declined to reveal how many students he would bring charges against. He said he would prefer to let the committee decide what policy it will follow on releasing information...