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LEON HIGGINBOTHAM earned a national reputation as lawyer, jurist, teacher, scholar and activist. His achievements are especially meaningful to me, a friend of 40 years, because Leon spoke out strongly on racial issues. His admonishments to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are well known, but few are aware he appointed more minority clerks than any other judge...
...gone into a state-of-the-art laboratory to concoct the ideal judge to lighten his troubles, Clinton could not have conjured a better foil than Susan Webber Wright. Only a female Republican, Bush-appointed, generally unfriendly jurist could provide such a politically and legally sweet ruling. A Democrat, foreseeing the firestorm, probably wouldn't have had the guts to do it. Though criticism rained down on conservative talk-show hosts from callers outraged that one of Clinton's former law students had been allowed to preside over the case, the fact is that Wright is no fan of Bill...
...given name means "inspired of God"--was born to a family of Shi'ite scholars in a village near Tehran in 1902. Shi'ism, a minority sect in Islam, is Iran's official religion. Like his father, he moved from theological studies to a career as an Islamic jurist. Throughout his life, he was acclaimed for the depth of his religious learning...
DIED. WILLIAM LAMBERT, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning forebear of modern-day investigative journalists whose 1969 LIFE expose of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas (he accepted $20,000 from a stock swindler) led to the jurist's resignation nine days later; in Bryn Mawr...
Twersky was noted for his study of 12th-century Jewish philosopher and jurist, Maimonides. One of his most renowned works was an introductory study for a 1980 translation of Maimonides'Mishneh Torah...