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...began my ill-fated and ultimately uncompleted effort at a commencement address. It’s not much of a speech, really, and the last portion is a rather clumsy effort at segueing into a pearl of wisdom that, in all likelihood, would never have emerged. As I was beginning to write, I wanted to stand before the assembled Commencement crowd and, more than anything, casually note just how wonderful my roommate...
...more on the prestigious Harvard Law Review, the legal periodical whose editorships are often tickets to judicial clerkships and professorships.In 1981, all 80-some editors except one were white, and it would be another decade before the Review elected its first black president, Sen. Barack H. Obama, (D-Ill.) Fewer than a dozen of the editors on the Review were women, although Susan R. Estrich, the law professor and Democratic political operative, served as the Review’s president in 1977. It was then that the saga of the Law Review’s affirmative action program began, when...
...succeeded in dividing the Pritzker fortune, although the details of the deal have not been released to the public. Pritzker, along with her two cousins, still run the core of the family enterprise.Sherwood-Randall says that the ordeal has been painful because, after Pritzker’s mother became ill, Pritzker had become the legal guardian to her two brothers who were later involved in the lawsuit.“I admire her dignity and discretion in handling this by taking the high road,” she says. “She has largely not engaged in the mudslinging...
...seemed to me that I had found a place where I could belong.”Brown remembers Faludi as a “very hardworking, very driven” reporter and a kind colleague who took the time to visit Brown in the hospital after she suddenly fell ill with a bout of pneumonia.“She was highly focused and she always was willing to write an honest opinion even if that was not a popular opinion,” fellow Crimson executive Steven J. Rosston’81 says.FAMILY MATTERS Faludi grew up in Yorktown Heights...
...Marines are indeed guilty of an atrocity, they had the ill fortune to have committed their crime in the worst possible place: outside the front door of a budding Iraqi journalist and human-rights activist. Taher Thabet, 43, was at home in Haditha on the morning of Nov. 19 when around 7:15 he heard the detonation of the roadside bomb that struck a Marine humvee, killing the driver, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, 20. The blast shattered Thabet's windows. He ran outside in time to see Marines from three other humvees springing from their vehicles and heading for four...