Word: holmeses
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Chosen president of Harvard over considerable conservative opposition, Eliot made sweeping changes. He abolished virtually all required courses. He canceled the stern Puritan rules of discipline: no more compulsory daily chapel, no more bans on smoking or theatergoing. He overhauled and greatly improved the medical and law schools, founded the...
"For 355 years our family has been involved with public service," boasts Thomas, who has also opted to follow that calling. Since graduating from the Kennedy School of Government in 1975, he has worked for the Dukakis administration and for civil rights activist Eleanor Holmes Norton. Most recently, he resigned...
The two detectives, who have appeared in 13 novels, are the mainstay of a popularity that has seen more than 1 million copies of Rendell's books printed in English; she has also been translated into 14 other languages. Still, Wexford and Burden are fast becoming the bane of her...
Constitutional scholars like Harvard's Laurence Tribe and Columbia's Vincent Blasi see a cloaked radicalism in such doctrine. While claiming legitimacy from the founders, they argue, a decision like Dred Scott flouts decades of evolving law and practice--in this case the Missouri Compromise, along with other statutes through...
By and large, that has been the court's chief business ever since it first went into business. In Holmes' words, the Constitution has ramifications that "could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters." How, for example, could James Madison have foreseen a wiretap? Therefore...