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...professor and taught in the subsequent years at The University of Nebraska College of Law, Penn’s Law School, and finally at the Boalt School of Law at Berkeley, where he retired in 1987. During his twenty years there, he received the UC Berkeley Distiguished Teaching Award in 1983. He is best known for “Studies on Bail”, his book that was published in 1966 arguing for the reform of the bail system. He is survived by his wife Hope, his children Robert, Eliot, Andrew, David, and Heather, and their four grandchildren. They could...
Glück was appointed the poet laureate of the United States in 2003, and Averno is her 11th poetry collection. Among other honors, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1992 collection “The Wild Iris,” and the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1985 collection “The Triumph of Achilles...
...final legislation left out some controversial measures, such as proposed federal regulation of transfer credits and college accreditation, according to Casey. An earlier version of the reauthorization would have given states the power to accredit universities, but this provision was dropped, Pals said. State control over which colleges can award diplomas or receive federal financial aid for their students would have interfered with academic freedom, he said. Another measure modified in the final legislation would have forced colleges to accept students’ transfer credits, even if the courses taken did not reach colleges’ academic standards, Pals added...
...Value of Britain's Samuel Johnson Award for nonfiction writing, which this year counts among its finalists the anonymous Iraqi woman behind the blog Baghdad Burning $1,000 An average Iraqi's annual income...
...mail. Feldstein teaches Economics 2490, “The Economics of National Security,” and taught Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” for more than two decades. Weinberger received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 1987, the year he left the Defense Department.In 1992, Weinberger faced a federal indictment for lying to investigators in the Iran-Contra scandal under Reagan, but received a presidential pardon from President George H. W. Bush before his trial began.Born Aug. 18, 1917, in San Francisco, Weinberger arrived...