Word: benjamin
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...adamantly, Justice Department officials insisted that grand juries must examine the evidence first, decide whom to indict for what, and send any criminal charges to trial. Simultaneous probes would only get in each other's way and make both branches of Government look inept, said Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, and in the end might let all of the suspects escape punishment. The new scandal was hardly another Watergate, yet the inter-branch conflict was hauntingly familiar...
...Benjamin H. Schatz '81, coordinator of GOOD, said yesterday he was surprised at the large turnout at the demonstration. He added that while their protests will not close the movie, "we were successful in raising people's awareness of discrimination against gays...
William Proxmire (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has proposed the Attorney General appoint a special prosecutor. We urge Benjamin Civiletti to reconsider his earlier rejection of this move. Only a special prosecutor can probe the past conduct and present candor of a Cabinet member without suspicion of political influence. President Carter's campaign literature trumpets his insistence "that everyone in government be held to the highest standards of ethics and accountability, with no exceptions." The Secretary of the Treasury should not be an exception...
...There are more mice this year than any other I've ever seen," Benjamin A. Bartie, Winthrop House superintendent, said yesterday. Each time a student filed a complaint, Bartie aid, he called an exterminator...
...role and began to favor the mother, especially if the child was in his first five to seven years. The rule that generally prevails in the U.S. today-that custody must be based on the "best interests of the child"-was articulated in a landmark decision in 1925 by Benjamin Cardozo, then a New York State Court of Appeals judge. Though the rule is sex-blind in principle, men seldom win custody in the 10% of the cases that go to court. "The courts are prejudiced against fathers," insists Leonard Kerpelman, a Baltimore lawyer who champions fathers' rights. "Unless...