Word: edward
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...profound ethical concerns." At the top of his list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams and 17th century English Legal Scholar and Judge Sir Edward Coke. Her well-known work Miracle at Philadelphia vividly described the making of the U.S. Constitution. "She cared very much about right and wrong, but not once did she talk to me directly about it," says Bowen. "She was a silent force who set an example in her own living...
...South Wales Police News. It was surprising to find that this publication can be unearthed somewhere in the confines of the Harvard Law Library. The same goes for the annual reports of the Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope and the Law Society of Prince Edward Island. Even more surprising is the ready accessibility of McDonald's Licensing Laws for New South Wales to anybody with a Harvard I.D. If you are planning to open a Burger King or Wendy's franchise in New South Wales, however, you may have to go elsewhere to find the licensing laws...
...Edward J. Barfield...
...Edward C. Henschel...
Other changes have made journalists more willing to broach such previously unmentionable subjects. A succession of public scandals involving politicians in the '60s and '70s (including Senator Edward Kennedy's car accident at Chappaquiddick, which resulted in the death of a female companion, and Representative Wilbur Mills' drunken shenanigans at the Tidal Basin with a former stripper) brought the issue of womanizing to the forefront. With the breakdown of sexual taboos in the 1960s, public discussion of such topics became more acceptable. At the same time, with the changing status of women, society has grown less tolerant of the macho...