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Ireland spoke of the recent selection of a female attorney general as "instructive of many of the issues we face." She said that after Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood were denied the position, the running joke in Washington was that for President Bill Clinton to find a suitable female candidate he would have to locate "a childless woman with a dirty house. So along came Janet Reno...
AFTER ZOE BAIRD AND KIMBA WOOD, NEITHER THE Clinton Administration nor its critics were in the mood for another imbroglio. So Dade County (Miami) prosecutor Janet Reno faced a Senate Judiciary Committee eager to accept her as the first woman Attorney General. She made the most of her opportunity. Reno opened with a folksy but appealing tribute to her parents and their stern self-reliance. Beyond declaring support for strong gun-control laws, she had little specific to say about policy. She stressed the need for social programs to keep children from turning to crime but also affirmed the necessity...
After a woeful power-play at 7:58, Harvard took advantage of its next man-up opportunity at 12:16, pelting Fiander in the closing seconds, as Captain Ted Drury, junior Chris Baird and junior Brian Farrell all unloaded hard shots. Fiander turned them all aside...
...McCann (Baird Flomenhoft...
Leon Higgenbotham, a federal district judge for almost 30 years, was reported by The Washington Post to be on the short list to replace Attorney General nominee Zoe Baird. He is a University of Pennsylvania trustee and holds over 50 honorary degrees...