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Vaulted into the spotlight by the controversy surrounding the charges of sexual assault against D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, the coalition recently won two important concessions from the administration.
Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, pled guilty to rape and indecent assault and battery of an undergraduate female in Middlesex Superior Court in September. In the same month, Douglas pled guilty to indecent assault and battery of an undergraduate woman.
His publications were many, including several books on his mentor, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, for whom he had clerked in the early 1940s. Countryman carried on a lifelong relationship with Douglas, who, like Countryman, was both a bankruptcy expert and a civil liberties hawk.
--Reported by James Carney, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty and Douglas Waller/Washington
Entrapment isn't the only film in recent years to pair up an elder Hollywood statesman with a blooming industry "It" girl. Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow epitomized the generation gap in A Perfect Murder, and we saw the pattern again in Six Days, Seven Nights, starring Harrison Ford and...