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After her name made it onto the search circuit, many alums called the University, threatening to withhold donations if she were chosen as president...
...addition to Leder, Feldstein and Rudenstine, they were University of Chicago President Gerhard Casper, Houghton Professor of Chemistry Jeremy R. Knowles, Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Michael B. McElroy, Columbia University Professor of Psychology Donald Hood and Stephen G. Breyer, Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit...
...better example of this could be found than the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' repugnant Oct. 27 decision that the constitutional right to a lawyer is satisfied even if the court-appointed lawyer is asleep. The court rejected an appeal from the Texas courts in which the lawyer appointed to represent Calvin Burdine in a capital case had slept through a large portion of the trial. Although the facts were uncontested, and although other appeals courts have found that a sleeping lawyer is constitutionally equivalent to no lawyer at all, the 5th Circuit found that Burdine did not deserve...
...that seemed to be the way it would stay. Though Jean Carnahan, 66, is extremely well liked in Missouri, she has never publicly expressed any interest in entering the political sphere herself. She's written a few books, but they haven't provided much fodder for the talk-show circuit: One was a guide to holiday entertaining and another delved into the history of the governor's mansion...
Cultural pressure alone tends to short-circuit the latency period, when a child usually develops a sense of who she is and where she fits in the world. When a girl's body develops early, she is more likely to hook up with a boy--and leave her group of girl friends--before the developmental work of the latency period is done. "That," says Pipher, "has all sorts of harmful social, academic and psychological consequences...