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Marshall served as president of the 8,000-member Boston Bar Association from 1991 to 1992, as the group's second woman chief. She pushed for greater access to the courts for poor and middle-class citizens; and in 1992, she helped draft a BBA legislative package that would have transferred appointment and budgeting power from the state legislature to the state's chief justices. That plan was ultimately derailed on Beacon Hill...
...Harvard, Marshall helped draft the University's policies regarding the sharing of student financial-aid information with other schools, in the wake of a 1989 Justice Department ruling that such sharing among the Ivy League universities amounted to anti-competitive price fixing...
...collaboration with his speechwriter, the novelist Mark Helprin, was such a hit. Aaargh, eggheads all liked the resignation speech, do it again. There was a lovely spareness to certain small sections, and if it had been sustained, it would have resulted in elegance. Helprin had given Dole a first draft of the speech on April 22, then met with him roughly a dozen times to work on it. But in San Diego things unraveled when Dole asked for new writers. Soon sections of eloquence were followed by blocks of boilerplate. After more than a dozen drafts, Helprin turned...
...With legal fees mounting and Mac and his siblings not acting, the Culkins will soon be unable to pay the rent on their three Manhattan apartments (one for Mac, one for mom Patricia Bentrup and five kids, one for dad Kit). Mom likes the plan; Dad doesn't. A draft of Home Alone III is reportedly nearly finished, but maybe...
...husband would do. If the First Lady had been in any real doubt about what her husband would do, Clinton watchers reasoned, Williams would have sat in to listen and report. Also, though no other participants knew it, senior policy adviser Bruce Reed had prepared only one advance draft of the speech Clinton would give, and it assumed a decision to sign (though Reed says he could have quickly revised it to defend a veto...