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...must show the enemy you're prepared to take risks, and that you're prepared to escalate. Of course this improves your bargaining position, and you may be able to settle on terms more acceptable to you. So I think the Greek story must be entirely within his purview...
Justice Thurgood Marshall, delivering the Court's opinion on two draft cases, said, "We hold that Congress intended to exempt persons who oppose participating in all war... and that persons who object solely to participation in a particular war are not with-in the purview of the exempting section...
...Commission on Inquiry is supposed to "serve as a clearing house for inquiries, suggestions, or complaints brought to it by members of the Faculty or of the student bodies of Harvard College, the GSAS, and Radcliffe College on matters of fact and policy within the purview of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." The CSCR students are the only ones who have expressed interest in this committee...
...when the Army began serious preparations to support local authorities in quelling ghetto riots. With the advent of large-scale antiwar protests, the Army argued that the files of the FBI, Justice Department and other agencies were not adequate for its intelligence needs. Therefore the Army extended its purview into areas normally reserved to regular law enforcement bodies. This was done without congressional approval. In some cases, the Army launched its clandestine activities without the knowledge of Army civilian officials...
...plans had already been made. Neither was the AHC site a subject of the committee's deliberations. Despite numerous objections by committee members, and a petition signed by over two-thirds of all first-year medical students, Fein ruled that the site question was beyond the committee's purview...