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Written by freshman Harlan Page Peck in 1859, the song changed once before, adopting its current melody when it proved impossible to set the lyrics to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne...
...probing moderator on last year's series The Constitution: A Delicate Balance. His academic rise has been dramatic. After getting his LL.B. at Yale in 1966, Schmidt clerked for Chief Justice Earl Warren, joined the Columbia faculty in 1969. Before being named dean in 1984, he had become Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional...
...Kolberg," a surrealistic film directed by Veit Harlan, was intended to give a "shot in the arm" to low German morale, said Senior Lecturer on Social Studies Richard M. Hunt, an expert on the film and culture of Nazi Germany...
While such a heavy concentration of venerability on one court is unusual, 34 of the 102 Justices have continued past their 75th birthdays, including such luminaries as John Marshall, Roger Taney, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis < Brandeis. John Harlan, who retired in 1971 at the age of 72, became nearly blind at the end of his tenure, but "those last five years made him one of the greatest Justices in history," says Stanford Constitutional Scholar Gerald Gunther. On the other hand, Harlan's longtime colleague and adversary Hugo Black, who did not retire until just before his death...
Almost ninety years ago, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a prophetic dissent to the Supreme Court decision in Plessy V. Ferguson, upholding state-imposed segregation in the United States Harlan condemned mandated segregation as "inconsistent not only with that equality of rights which pertains to citizenship, but with the personal liberty enjoyed by everyone in the United States....The destinies of the races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be placed under the sanction of law." The spirit of Harlan's dissent underlies...