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...must be a blessedly welcome end for him and his aides, they have just a month to try to salvage what had been a promising postvictory year. Instead, Social Security reform died; the U.S. death toll in Iraq passed 2,000; Katrina exposed the weakness of the Administration's bench players; a Supreme Court nominee fell; a White House aide resigned under indictment. Even Karl Rove's aura of imperturbability began to melt, not only because he is under investigation in the CIA-leak case but also--and more gravely for the G.O.P.--because for once he seemed unable...
...just don’t have our best,” Donato said. “I give Yale a lot of credit for that happening.” The Bulldogs may have battled throughout, but all that mattered in the end was that the Crimson’s bench rushed the ice following Maki’s sudden-death score. “It was a game that could’ve gone either way,” Yale coach Tim Taylor ’63 said. Harvard was able to edge out a victory, and Bulldog tears started...
It’s the same determination and drive to win that was lacking on the other sideline and has been lacking on the Yale bench since winning the 1999 Ivy title—Siedlecki’s high-water mark as the Bulldogs’ coach...
DIED. WILLIAM BRYANT, 94, trailblazing D.C. lawyer who became the first black chief judge of a U.S. federal district court; in Washington. One of the first black Assistant U.S. Attorneys, he was appointed to the federal bench by Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Strikingly gracious despite having endured virulent racism early in his career, he was modest, averse to media attention and passionate about the ability of lawyers to achieve justice. If not for lawyers, he once said, "I'd still be three-fifths...
...Moot Court competition. The contest draws some of the country’s prominent legal minds to judge the final round. Along with Justice Souter, Emilio Garza of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Ilana Diamond Rovner for the Seventh Circuit were on the bench this year. Last night’s arguments culminated a year of effort by two teams of six students, who won the opportunity to compete after defeating several of their classmates in a preliminary competition that included the preparation of briefs and oral arguments. In the competition, students argued...