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...Earl J. Silbert, a friend from the Law School, remembers playing tennis with Dukakis and meeting for lunch in Boston Common when they were both working for downtown law firms...
...seat in the library, where my favorite section of books is, how it feels to be a student studying through the bitter cold reading period, or working hour upon hour on my senior thesis between runs to J.P. Licks for a free sample of ice cream and a large Earl Grey tea. Already the ghosts of faded experience fill Widener’s halls and surroundings, swirled about in my memory with a thousand other impressions...
...keynote speaker, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He asked that Dr. King join him in April for a Passover Seder in his family’s New York apartment. On April 4th, only a week before King was to sit at Rabbi Heschel’s table, James Earl Ray shot and killed Reverend King outside his Memphis hotel room...
...executive branch is less susceptible to partisanship since it's run by one party at a time. Created in 1978, inspectors general have broken some of the biggest stories in recent years. Bush-era inspector general Earl Devaney exposed unethical behavior by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and forced out then Deputy Secretary of the Interior J. Steven Griles for obstructing his investigation. But IGs are not immune to accusations of partisan influence. Janet Rehnquist, the daughter of the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, was accused of partisan motivation when she delayed a Florida pension-fund audit at the request...
...unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court obliterated their reasoning. Violation of the Equal Protection Clause, wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren, is related to “arbitrary and invidious discrimination,” regardless of the fairness with which punishments are distributed. Since marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man” that is “essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness,” to deny this “fundamental freedom” to two people who love each other on such an arbitrary criteria as race...