Word: counsels
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...Supreme Court nomination is the defining moment of a presidency, the nomination of Harriet Miers, White House legal counsel and previously Bush’s personal lawyer, confirms that the Bush administration has abandoned any attempt at vigorously or seriously advocating a coherent conservative philosophy...
...response, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 asked a nine-person committee of faculty, administrators, a representative from the University’s General Counsel, and a student to reevaluate Harvard’s travel policy early this summer...
...Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 asked a task force—including Associate Dean of the College Georgene Herschbach, Director of the Committee on Education Abroad John H. Coatsworth, Harvard College Professor Jorge I. Dominguez, Edwards, a representative from the General Counsel, a student, and others—to reevaluate Harvard’s travel policy...
President Bush, who prides himself on boldness, went with safety for his second Supreme Court nomination. Harriet Ellan Miers -now the White House counsel, and named Monday morning to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor-was commended by several Democratic senators during the President's consultation process. "If there is a fight to be had, it will be from the right," says a Republican Senate aide. "The left has been disarmed...
...Bush's first inauguration, she started as staff secretary, the official who manages the paper flow to and from the President and thus knows virtually everything about what is happening in the West Wing. She later was one of the two deputy chiefs of staff, and became White House counsel-the President's lawyer-in February when Alberto Gonzales moved up to attorney general. Specifically, Democrats are likely to ask her about the so-called Bybee memo of 2002, since disavowed by the White House, which provided a legal justification for the use of torture on detainees...