Word: fenno
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...last week is any guide, a lot more straight party votes may lie ahead. But proceeding with a matter as important as impeachment by strict party-line votes could be a mistake. "You can't run impeachment as a partisan matter," says University of Rochester political-science professor Richard Fenno. "For either party to ram impeachment through on the basis of a majority would not be a very happy solution for the country in general and for the party that does...
...anonymous satirical columns in the Harvard Law Record, printed under the name of Fenno, are attacked in a letter signed by 42 professors calling the articles "repugnant and mean-spirited." Fenno refuses to apologize and new columns get Fenno and the Record into further trouble as Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60 takes the Record to the Administrative Board for defamatory statements. On Feb. 25, Nesson agrees to drop charges and the Record promises to print an apology and a humorous retraction follows...
Last February, the Law School Record's anonymous satirical column "Fenno" decried the U.S. government's tendency to "only help colored folks and pointy headed Jews...
...There is still a culture of political correctness that limits what people say," says Robert H. Friedman, one of the publishers of the Law School Record who was involved in the Fenno controversy...
...Fenno was trying to walk a line between political correctness and speaking directly," Friedman, says. "In each instance you need to take into account both the context and the motives of those concerned...