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...fund had its origins in Brandeis's fruitless efforts, through Frankfurter, to stop the 1927 execution of Sacco and Vanzetti: in total, more than $50,000 passed from Brandeis to Frankfurter, before the latter joined the bench in 1939, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, for whom he--like Brandeis for Wilson--had become an inner-circle adviser...
...meet his girlfriend, the judge, who wears a .38 on the bench and at the age of 36 insists on living at home with her over-protective father, Lee, his beautiful ex-wife, also remains a force in Shea's life, especially since she alone was present when their adopted and much loved daughter. Cat, was killed by a terrorist's bomb...
...modest way, Jakob finds the centralized, autocratic German state harsh and arbitrary as well. It scorns the old, leaving them to languish and wither in unheated anonymity, and sends the young to the trenches. As Hegel claims, not without graceful ride, states disembowel individuals on "the slaughter bench of history...
...Arizona Twins. In 48 of 52 written opinions this term, former Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Sandra Day O'Connor has sided with her Stanford Law School classmate, one-time Phoenix Lawyer William Rehnquist. The latest evidence of the like-mindedness of O'Connor and the high bench's leading conservative came last week in two areas: upholding seniority systems even if they favor white males, and limiting the right of prisoners to have their convictions reviewed...
...soon be World's Fair Lake. The fair's signature structure: the Sunsphere, a steel shaft housing two restaurants, which with its gilded-globe top looks like the world's only 266-ft. microphone. Says Fair President S.H. ("Bo") Roberts: "This is going to be a bench mark. We will think of Knoxville before and Knoxville after...