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...join in the challenge and begin the work of catching up with their sisters in the West. One is an economist turned Prime Minister, another a sociologist who presides over a parliament, a third a onetime model who speaks for her government. Then there is the former law clerk who has taken over a Prime Minister's office and influences government policy from within...
Along with a barrage of media attention, Souter faces several immediate housekeeping tasks. First is the hiring of a secretary and four legal clerks to help sift through the mounds of paperwork and petitions that are every Justice's lot. His clerks will have a say in which cases the court will hear and, along with their fellow clerks, are the only individuals who can openly argue the merits of pending cases with the Justices. Souter will probably bring at least one clerk with him from New Hampshire and will soon begin interviewing the flood of candidates clamoring...
During the year after graduation, the fellows are paid a stipend roughly equal to the salary of an appelate court clerk and are expected to study abroad and write a large work for publication...
...collapse of the junk-bond market or had taken pay cuts in the aftermath of corporate buyouts. Claude Daughtry, a real estate agent in Berkeley, complained that he had lost money in the junk-bond debacle and called Milken's fine a travesty. Ronald Cornwall, a Pennsauken, N.J., grocery clerk, said his salary plunged from $33,000 to $24,700 when his employer, Pathmark, was acquired...
Work and political experience: After serving as a law clerk with the state's Supreme Judicial Court, Weld worked for 10 years at the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow. He lost to Democrat Francis X. Bellotti in the 1978 race for attorney general. In 1981, he was appointed U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. Former President Ronald W. Reagan brought Weld to Washington in 1986, appointing him assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. Weld resigned from the post in 1988 to protest the actions of former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. He now works for the Boston...