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...Souter served as attorney general for two years before moving on to the state's highest court, where he would leave behind a record in which liberals and conservatives could both find encouraging signs. He was a strong supporter of environmental and consumer protections. But in criminal cases he tended to favor the prosecution. And in a 1986 dissent he adopted the "strict constructionist" argument that a court's job was to determine how constitutional language was understood by the framers who proposed it. When it came time for Souter's name to go before the U.S. Senate, the first...
...elegant evening watch with hand-guilloché details; Sporting, the most masculine of the group, with screws on the bezel; and Stirrup, equestrian-inspired and certain to become the iconic silhouette of the brand. Lauren joined with luxury group Richemont?owner of brands like Piaget and IWC?to ensure the highest level of watchmaking expertise. It was only a matter of time...
...Supreme Court. That's no small consideration. As their numbers have grown in the U.S., Hispanics have become a key target of political competition between the Democrats and Republicans, and many in the community believe it is time for them to be represented on the nation's highest court. Republicans briefly made gains with them under Bush, but have lost ground recently; amid the battle over immigration reform, a majority of Hispanics backed Obama in the 2008 election. Naming Sotomayor would be a particularly big blow to the GOP, which has suffered a string of them lately...
...complications from the disease. The first U.S. death from the outbreak occurred in Texas on Monday night when an infant from Mexico City travelling to the U.S. with family died. In response to the spread of the virus, the World Health Organization declared a Phase 5 outbreak, the second-highest on its threat scale. At Harvard, Provost Steven E. Hyman and the Director of Harvard University Health Services David S. Rosenthal ’59 sent out a community advisory yesterday, informing students via e-mail that there were two confirmed cases of swine flu in Lowell, Mass...
...little more than a month, Harvard will graduate yet another class of seniors and commend them to prestigious positions in regions far-flung across the globe. Even with the economic downturn, no doubt this class—like all before it—will eventually fill the highest echelons in government, finance, law, and academia...