Word: benno
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...president to succeed the retiring A. Bartlett Giamatti, there was little doubt the university had picked a man of very proper parts. "We had a rather long list of qualities we were looking for," said Cyrus R. Vance, former Secretary of State and head of the search committee, "and Benno C. Schmidt Jr. had more of them than anyone else." That takes in a lot of people, more than 400 original prospects...
...Gunther. On the other hand, Harlan's longtime colleague and adversary Hugo Black, who did not retire until just before his death at 85, seemed to decline. "The nicest thing you could say is that he was not as vigorous in his last years," says Columbia Law School Dean Benno Schmidt...
...This Administration is committed to trying to enforce secrecy to the extent no previous Administration has," declares Benno Schmidt, dean of Columbia Law School. The Administration has repeatedly tried to crack down on leakers, restrict press access and draft tighter secrecy laws...
...covert CIA activity in the mythical country of Sierra Madre must be kept secret from Congress and the public. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker disagree. The debate is familiar, but it gains discipline and clarity from the astute questioning of Moderator Benno Schmidt, dean of the Columbia Law School. Unfortunately, the hour shows are frequently over before the surface has been more than scratched: too many celebrity experts to hear from. Still, The Constitution is grappling with some big issues in a lively and informative...
...broad as Kaufman's resounding language suggests. The reigning scholar of copyright law, Melville Nimmer of U.C.L.A. law school, said the "essential element" in the case is that "the underlying material is factual." Paraphrasing of fictional material would still violate copyright laws. Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt also did not quarrel with the decision but added, "The appropriate principles of copyright protection got bent out of shape by the tremendous newsworthiness of the Ford disclosures...