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...Pentagon was initially unperturbed. "Nothing improper or illegal," said Spokesman Fred Hoffman. Indeed, Pentagon Counsel Chapman Cox had approved Gilleece's move, requiring only that she stop handling Government business with the 29 firms she was soliciting. Faced with criticism inside and outside the Pentagon, Gilleece finally decided not to set up the firm. And late last week she submitted her resignation. CONGRESS Giving and Receiving...
...which resulted from a suit filed by Jimmy Carter's Justice Department in late 1980, was politely applauded by the Reagan Administration. The N.A.A.C.P., which became a joint plaintiff in 1981, saw the ruling as a boost for similar cases in Milwaukee and Kansas City. Said N.A.A.C.P. Assistant General Counsel Michael Sussman: "We knew we were going to win all along." So perhaps did Yonkers' political establishment, which expressed no surprise at the ruling. Some of the city's officials acknowledge that segregation exists, but have denied that public planning had anything to do with it. DRUGS Tuning...
...closet in China; Beijing had just taken it off an official list of mental disorders. Zhou's entries, signed with his own name, had an unintended consequence. Gay men from around China who had faced workplace discrimination, blackmail and even prison time started to seek his legal counsel. So Zhou, 31, decided to act on his conviction that "a good lawyer should know not only how to make money from the profession but also how to advance some mission related to social justice...
...lack of collaboration between University Health Services (UHS) and the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC)—which offered services unknown to many students to begin with—along with inadequately trained professors and residential tutors also hampered efforts to provide students with coordinated treatment, the investigation reported...
...before heading to NBC news, Russert got an inside view into the executive and legislative branches of government working as “counselor in the New York Governor’s office in Albany in 1983 and 1984 and a special counsel in the United States Senate from 1977 to 1982,” according to the NBC website...