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...conservative Boston lawyer and Harvard alumnus is expected to receive Attorney General Edwin Meese III's nomination for U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts...
...bust has devastated the state's most important industry. Cotton is no longer king, nor is sugarcane. The unemployment rate of 12.8% is the second highest in the nation, just behind Mississippi's. Some 80,000 people have left the state since 1983. The Governor, smooth-talking Edwin Edwards, has survived two trials on racketeering and fraud charges, though he did not emerge unscathed. Two state administrators have been jailed on corruption charges, and two others are under indictment. "I am frightened about our future," says Greenwell Springs Resident Joyce Payer. "I am worried about my husband...
...Edwin Meese III, public official. Meese is currently doing considerable damage as the attorney general of the United States. It would be good to get him switched somewhere where he is farther away from the Constitution. Best of all, Meese could wear his Kennedy School Distinguished Public Service Medal...
...contact led to a major embarrassment for the school last spring, when Allison's decision to grant Attorney General Edwin Meese III a medal for "distinguished public service" generated widespread criticism from the Harvard community. Many scholars and alumni questioned whether the school could enjoy government contacts and still maintain its academic objectivity and integrity...
...third controversy broke out just before Spring Break. Lawyers and public servants around the nation had a hearty laugh when Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 announced that his school of government would award Attorney General Edwin Meese III a medal for distinguished public service. Allison eventually was forced to apologize to students and faculty at the school for his unilateral decision to honor Meese, who quite clearly does not merit such an award...