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...testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the "indignities" that Harvard imposed on women were what led her to spend much of her career fighting to break down legal barriers to the advancement of women in society...
...Tuesday's hearing, Ginsburg told of being shut out of Lamont library, which was closed to women when she was a student at Harvard Law School in 1956 to 1958. She said women guests were not invited to the Harvard Law Review banquet, and that women were not given space in the Law School dormitories...
...experience with the agency. Another candidate is Lee Colwell, a former FBI official and current Clinton adviser who lives in Little Rock. No quick replacement is at hand, however, because the confirmation could take months, especially since the Senate will be tied up with the confirmation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Supreme Court Justice...
...come to seem like a relic of an earlier age to the younger women lawyers who now make up 24% of the profession (vs. 3% in the early 1970s), lovely to contemplate on a shelf somewhere but not as politically correct or savvy as the later models. Recently, Ginsburg and her friend Kathleen Peratis, a Manhattan lawyer, commiserated about "how we both were feeling like dinosaurs" when set beside today's feminist avant garde, who didn't experience sex discrimination in full bloom...
Liberals fear that her friendship with conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, with whom she served on the Appeals Court, might move her away from her natural allies, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter. In an interview last year, Ginsburg said, "Nino is the best colleague I've ever had. He's so thoroughly engaging." In a widely quoted joke, Scalia once replied "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" when asked whether he would want to be stranded on a desert island with New York Governor Mario Cuomo or Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. At a dinner party at her house shortly after...