Word: harriet
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...conspicuous rise to power of Harriet Miers, President Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee, could leave any Harvard woman unnerved. If an ambitious female seeks professional success, must she really follow Miers’ path: no husband, no children, and fawning notes to the boss for his birthday...
...Harriet Miers represents the Dilemma of the 21st Century Woman, who better to weigh in on the dilemma than Miers’ most caustic critic, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd? In her new book, “Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide,” Dowd grapples with (and documents) the conflicting demands of work, romance, and family, all against the backdrop of a less-than-hospitable cultural climate. As Dowd writes, “Feminism lasted for a nanosecond, but the backlash has lasted 40 years...
...days before Harriet Miers suddenly withdrew her nomination to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, one of President Bush's leading allies on judicial nominations was moaning at a Washington party about the President's pick to replace Sandra Day O'Connor. "It's a disaster," he said. "I don't understand...
...departure of Harriet Miers-the first Supreme Court nomination to be withdrawn under duress (John Roberts withdrew from consideration as Associate Justice so he could be nominated to replace William Rehnquist as Chief Justice) since Judge Douglas Ginsburg was dropped over marijuana use in 1987-is a huge embarrassment to a White House that prides itself on its political savvy and keeping its base happy. Conservatives who had long pushed for a judge whose views matched their own were furious when Bush thanked them by presenting a nominee whose positions were unknown to say the least and whose qualifications...
Miers' troubles with Specter began with her courtesy calls on other Senators. "All Specter is hearing from colleagues on both sides is that they're getting nothing from Harriet but vague generalities and how wonderful the President is," says a friend of the Senator's. "None of these people are interested in that." Then, after a meeting last week in which Specter tried to walk Miers through traps she might encounter at her hearing, he spoke well of her to reporters. But she later phoned him and contradicted his recollection that she had expressed support for Griswold v. Connecticut...