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...punishment, criteria for calling witnesses and cross-examining them must all be explicitly stated in the new committee's charter. To say, as the University has suggested, that the committee will make such decisions according to an evolving body of common law is to say that it will function like the CRR. The new body must guarantee an opportunity for cross-examination, and not make judgements on the basis of hearsay evidence...
Depending on how you look at it, the function of the police is to maintain law and order or to reinforce an existing power structure. Regardless, the use of police is a symptom of a breakdown in the community...
Created in 1947, the NSC was mandated to "advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign and military policies." It is supposed to function as a clearinghouse for security matters, evaluating data from the State Department, the Pentagon and other agencies with an eye to making policy recommendations to the President. The council itself consists of the President, Vice President and Secretaries of State and Defense, with the director of the CIA and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff serving as advisers. As recently as John F. Kennedy's Administration, the NSC was a relatively small...
...Without it, you cannot drink at any Yale College function," Stone said...
...chief duty in Laos was conducting press briefings. "The function of a press attache is to shield his superiors from the press," he says, explaining the "better me than the ambassador" philosophy...