Word: conventioners
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The Harvard decisions and ensuing claims of persecution increase the value of attending the convention for many CLS adherents. Crits--who make up only a small percentage of most law faculties--say the conference makes them fell that they are not alone.
"I think [the turnout] shows that although there's a lot of academic repression at a lot of institutions, CLS is still a very strong movement," says American University Professor of Law James Boyle, the t-shirt-clad director of the convention.
PRESIDENT Reagan, criticizing the Dukakis campaign for hiding its true colors, said it best a few days after the Democratic National Convention: "You'll never hear that 'L' word--liberal--from them."
During his convention acceptance speech, Dukakis proclaimed that "this election is not about ideology, it's about competence. And it's not about meaningless labels. It's about American values." Wrong. Labels have a great deal of significance in American politics. A candidate who refuses to define himself allows his...
Devastated, Sasso took a job working for Boston's largest advertising agency, Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos. He found the sidelines frustrating. He and Dukakis stayed in touch, but mainly as friends. After the convention, Sasso saw that something was missing: no one was crafting new themes to extend the basic...