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Look over here and you saw Harvard quarterback Mike Giardi's uniform lying in a clump behind the Harvard bench...
With Giardi on the sideline, Restic had to look to his bench, a prospect he did not relish...
...conformism," says Parker. Parker cites Justice Rehnquist's appointment as the "first time I remember liberals saying that only people with mainstream views should be on the bench. It's not good in the long...
Like most issues at the notoriously polarized Harvard Law School, there is hardly any consensus among students about whether Thomas should be approved for a post on the nation's highest judicial bench. Yet there is one recurring theme echoed by most of the students interviewed: While they would like to see a Black judge fill the seat left vacant by Justice Thurgood Marshall, they are more concerned with Thomas's ideology than his race in assessing his credentials for the high court...
Thomas' biography -- he pulled himself up by his bootstraps from dirt-poor Pin Point, Ga., to Yale Law School and the federal bench -- has inoculated him against criticism of his record: it would seem churlish and hypocritical to attack this black Horatio Alger figure for being insufficiently sensitive to the plight of impoverished blacks. Though he may endure some tough questioning about his two terms as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Ronald Reagan -- and some name calling from blacks who consider him an Uncle Tom because of his conservative views -- Thomas is all but certain...