Word: georgetown
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Harvard’s self-perpetuating governing board, the Harvard Corporation, currently includes four men and two women. Georgetown professor Patricia A. King, the third woman to serve on the Corporation in its history and the first African-American female, was appointed last year...
...Dowd's younger brother Craig was expected to enroll at Duke last fall on a lacrosse scholarship, but he turned it down and will enroll at Georgetown University this spring. "We didn't feel like we could send him to Duke with everything that was going on," Tricia Dowd, his mother, told a local newspaper. "We love Duke ... but we didn't know what the professors would...
...used to deploy kids across a school district. The court next week will also consider whether Seattle can continue to use a student's race as one of several tiebreakers when too many kids seek admission to the same high school. Taken together, these cases could represent, as Georgetown law professor James Forman puts it, "the last gasp of the integration movement...
...professor who litigated this summer’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court case ruling that military commissions for Guantanamo Bay detainees violate Geneva Convention prohibitions lauded that decision at the Harvard Law Review’s annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday. Georgetown University law professor Neal K. Katyal, a former Justice Department official, said in his address yesterday that the central issue in the case was whether presidents must follow the laws that govern warfare. “This case is not just on military commissions alone,” Katyal said. “The central premise is that...
...entirely clear that Pelosi would ever make the family business anything more than a hobby. After graduating from an all-girls Roman Catholic college in Washington, she married Paul Pelosi, whom she met at summer school at Georgetown University and who would eventually make a fortune in investment banking and real estate. They moved first to New York City and then to San Francisco. Pelosi had five children in six years. Between diapers and laundry, she raised money for Democrats and ultimately became the state-party chairwoman...