Word: hills
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...local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, architect of the original Brown case, declined to participate when Smith and the parents of 15 other black Topeka schoolchildren intervened in 1979. The chapter's combative president, Kenneth Hill, charged that the black lawyers who recruited Smith and her fellow plaintiffs "were not fighting for the kids in the schools at all. They were fighting for the leadership of blacks and all the empty honors they can get." The plaintiffs turned to the American Civil Liberties Union for legal assistance. It took seven years for the case...
Griffin Bell, Attorney General for Carter, once trudged to the Hill to try to talk House Speaker Thomas O'Neill into discouraging the mushrooming use of the legislative veto. Bell considered this proviso unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court subsequently ruled, but at the time, Capitol Hill Democrats led by O'Neill seemed more eager to fight than be right. "They almost wanted to be co-President," Bell recalled the other day. "If a President is faithful to his oath, he must resist...
...member of the Screen Actors Guild. I wrote a screenplay. I've got a horrendous project involving the integration of entertainment with education. You want to call me a consultant? Will your stomach settle? Okay, I'm a consultant. But really I do whatever the Sam Hill I want to." Lately he has been involved in something called Pro Per Inc., + which is "attempting to de-lawyer and re-people the American court system by encouraging Americans to represent themselves in court." And there is something Lawson calls the "Unauthorized Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution...
...embryo Republic, he drew them as classical columns standing together. The phrase the "federal pillars" was not just an empty cliche. Jefferson was not, of course, the only architect to act on such beliefs. In 1795 work began on Charles Bulfinch's new Massachusetts state house on Beacon Hill. The Old State House, built in 1712-13, had been the symbol of British power over Boston's economic life. Its site was tainted by the Boston Massacre. Its balcony signified rule by proclamation from on high...
...even. That was the cry on Capitol Hill last week, as Congress considered retaliation against two foreign companies that illicitly sold to the Soviet Union important high-tech equipment used in building submarines and aircraft carriers. The targets looming in the congressional periscope: Toshiba Machine, which is 50.1% owned by the Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp., and Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk, a state-owned computer and weaponmaker in Norway. Several lawmakers even suggested that Toshiba and Kongsberg be barred from selling products in the American market. "I'm talking about retribution," said Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah...