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...traveled through the South, Marshall was routinely threatened. More than once he found himself facing a white racist with a gun. Undaunted, Marshall and his team laid the legal groundwork for their victory in Brown. Working again with Houston and other civil rights lawyers, Marshall had to convince the court that the 14th Amendment would not allow segregation. His problem was the court's long-held position that separate but equal facilities were constitutional. "What they set out to do was demonstrate that there was no such thing as equality with separation -- that the very act of separation stigmatized individuals...
Rosovsky credits Spence for laying much of the groundwork for this faculty growth and a national economy for making Harvard look more attractive. Yet he is clearly pround of his work: "the Faculty has been strengthed," he says...
Rosovsky credits Spence for laying much of the groundwork for this faculty growth and a national economy for making Harvard look more attractive. Yet he is clearly pround of his work: "the Faculty has been strengthed," he says...
Rosovsky credits Spence for laying much of the groundwork for this faculty growth and a national economy for making Harvard look more attractive. Yet he is clearly proud of his work: "the Faculty has been strengthened," he says...
...learn on the job. Even as late- night comedians make him a laughingstock, Quayle has quietly established himself as the Administration's point man on a handful of issues. He has become a vigorous White House envoy to constituencies the President ignores. He has shrewdly begun to lay the groundwork for his own 1996 run for the White House. Quayle has become a Vice President in the Bush mold: a self-effacing, dutiful sidekick who will stand where the President points, as Bush sometimes does to Quayle in Rose Garden ceremonies, and will perform secret missions as needed. In other...