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...commissioners fixed instead of open terms, effectively freezing them in place for the rest of Reagan's presidency, the White House decided to act. "We wanted our own people," acknowledged White House Counsellor Ed Meese. The nominees, like the commissioners they would replace, are Democrats: Morris B. Abram, former president of Brandeis University and onetime chairman of the United Negro College Fund; John H. Bunzel, senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution; and Robert A. Destro, assistant law professor at Catholic University of America. Linda Chavez, assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers...
...Abram Chayes, Frankfurter Professor of Law and an authority on international law, called "Living with Nuclear Weapons" a "lucid and fair statement. I think it will be a standard book on these issues." He added that he had criticized early drafts as "over-Hobbesian," but the authors later assured him that "that had been toned down...
...Abram Chayes '43, a Law School professor who serves on the Alliance's national advisory board, said. "I think the Justice Department is making a fool of itself Providing a list of exhibitors strikes me as entirely inappropriate...
...Abram J. Chayes '43, Frankfurter Professor of Law--who clerked for Frankfurter in 1951--said he was motivated to organize the event by the fact that Frankfurter" was simply the increasingly dominant presence at the Law School for over 20 years--to have him sort of disappear was a shame...
Some of the most successful programs find new ways of stressing the importance of diligence and study. In Chicago, Abram Nicholas Pritzker, whose family controls the Hyatt hotel chain, has set up a trust fund to pay the $50,000 yearly expenses of the after-hours program...