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...civil libertarian positions that Chertoff staked out as an undergraduate at the College seem compatible with much of his early career, including his post-Harvard Law School clerkships for liberal Supreme Court Justice and fellow Harvard Law School alumnus William J. Brennan and for Appeals Court Judge Murray I. Gurfein, the judge who first permitted The New York Times to print The Pentagon Papers. After first working in private practice, Chertoff worked under then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani in New York. In 1990, he was appointed the U.S. attorney for New Jersey by former President Bush...
...history of the Corps and required that it be read to every Marine on November 10 each subsequent year to commemorate the birthday of the Corps. The guest of honor and keynote speaker at Thursday’s celebration, Lt. Col. David “Bull” Gurfein, the president of the class of 2000 at Harvard Business School, received the first slice of cake. Gurfein, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs who re-joined the Corps after Sept. 11 and fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, stressed the importance of winning “hearts and minds?...
DIED. Murray Gurfein, 72, federal judge who rejected the Nixon Administration's 1971 suit to block the New York Times's publication of the Pentagon papers; of a heart attack; in New York City. An affable, erudite New Yorker, Gurfein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and became a chief aide to Thomas E. Dewey, then special state rackets prosecutor, later New York's Governor. He served as one of the prosecutors at the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trials, practiced law privately for 25 years, and was nominated by President Nixon as a judge...
...Farrow (amount unknown), Barbra Streisand ($28,500), Barbara Walters ($28,500), Bob Dylan (who now has $78,000 more reason to sing of capitalist exploitation). New York Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson put up an unknown amount; Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, $28,500; Federal Judge Murray Gurfein, who wrote the decision in the Pentagon-papers case, $70,000. Most astonishing is the list of astute businessmen like Wriston who invested their personal funds. Fred J. Borch, former chairman of General Electric, put up $440,920; William H. Morton, president of American Express, $57,000; Donald Kendall, chairman...
...appeals court reversed Judge Gesell's ruling. By a vote of 2 to 1, the higher court halted further Post disclosures pending a full hearing in which the Government must prove the need for a permanent injunction. Meanwhile in Manhattan, the Government failed to prove that need to Judge Gurfein's satisfaction. Denying the injunction against the Times, Gurfein reported that Friday's secret hearing had produced no evidence of damaging data. "Without revealing the content of the testimony," he wrote, "suffice it to say that no cogent reasons were advanced as to why these documents, except in the general...