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...similar rate. As a consultant who manages our presence on the network, he oversees the message boards, starts new topics and keeps an eye on the overall operation of the system. In practice this requires him to be part newsman, part technical specialist and part space-age jurist who presides over sometimes substantive disputes online. "As soon as we opened for business, gun enthusiasts jumped on us for what they saw as TIME's antigun bias," says technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It has fallen largely to Tom to figure out how to give them the space to speak their...
...comprehensive crime prevention package, and a national service initiative. Furthermore, he overturned the gag rule at abortion clinics, enacted the most stringent ethics requirements ever on executive branch officials, introduced a plan for reinventing government which has received broad support, and successfully appointed a widely respected and able jurist to the Supreme Court...
...President set his sights on federal Appeals Judge Stephen Breyer, summoning him from Boston for Friday lunch at the White House and immediately boosting the jurist to front-runner status. But weekend reports that Breyer has a "Zoe Baird problem" clouded what had become a near certainty. As Breyer volunteered early on to the Administration, he had failed to pay almost $5,000 in Social Security taxes for an 81-year-old part-time domestic in his employ since 1980. Last February, even before Supreme Court Justice Byron White announced his retirement, Breyer paid up. Although White House aides maintained...
Higgenbotham's husband, U.S. Circuit Judge Leon Higgenbotham, a nationally-known jurist once rumored to be on the short list for Attorney General, will serve in a joint appointment between the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School...
...think of a better choice," said DuBoisProfessor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr.,who has known Edelman for many years. "She's abrilliant jurist and a compassionate person, andit's rare to find a combination of the depth ofcompassion with the range of brilliance...