Word: caps
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...Supreme Court fight in Washington yesterday as conservatives criticized Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s membership in the club. Republican activists said that Kennedy, the senior Democrat from Massachusetts, had been hypocritical for attacking Judge Samuel A. Alito’s membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), a conservative group founded in 1972 in part to oppose coeducation at the university. Alito claimed to be a member of the alumni group in a 1985 job application. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh sought to equate the Owl with CAP on his show yesterday. “Ted Kennedy...
...modus operandi, but it was unusual for him to admit that outright. Perhaps he felt comfortable inside the confines of what was ostensibly an off-the-record meeting, though nothing said among 40 professors is private. Or perhaps he thought he could remove his University president’s cap for an hour, though he has since acknowledged, in an interview last February, that “your words will never be heard in a way that is entirely separated from your role as president.”Whatever motivated Summers toward provocation that day, it is now a clich?...
...through the lens of these memories that I watched the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) matter unfold in the Alito confirmation hearings. Judge Alito was an undergraduate at Princeton at the very moment the school went co-ed. It seems that, like many men of his vintage, he opposed the admission of women and/or affirmative action for minorities. At least that's the implication of his joining CAP, a group formed to preserve the Princeton of yore as an elite academy for white males. Yet Alito, a man with a highly orderly mind, is oddly vague about his association with...
...Officials in both parties agree that Alito has made no obvious slip-ups, but Democrats complained about his parsimonious answers and spotty memory. Particularly harsh exchanges were prompted when the judge-who is known for his fastidiousness-insisted that he could not remember any of the controversy surrounding CAP, and its opposition to affirmative action and the admission of women at Princeton. "I've said what I can say about what I can recall about this group," Alito said, "which is virtually nothing." He went on to say, "I have wracked my memory on this." He added that while...
...Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) did not hide his skepticism over those answers, and engaged in a testy exchange with Specter over his demand to see the Library of Congress papers pertaining to CAP. "We are entitled to this information,? said Kennedy. ?It deals with the fundamental issues of equality and discrimination.... I'd want to give notice to the chair that you're going to hear it again and again and again and we're going to have votes of this committee again and again and again until we have a resolution." Specter shot back: "Well, Senator Kennedy...