Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the symposium was titled "Free Speech and the First Amendment," the five journalists and politicians spent the hour-and-a-half chatting about current events in a discussion moderated by Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller...
...There was zealotry but also an attitude that the law was frustrating them from a noble cause," said Liman, who led the Senate questioning of North and other participants in the affair. "But rather than bow to these laws, they had to leapfrog them...
...insult to injury, it was a Harvard Law School dean who maneuvered the proposal past the city's legal defenses and onto the ballot. City councillors declared a war of words against Harvard when Dean James M. Landis, head of the Cambridge Committee for Plan E, helped force the proposal onto Cambridge's November 1938 ballot...
...rookie attorney just out of the University of Washington law school, Foley seemed likely to emulate the career of his father, a highly regarded state judge who exerted a powerful influence over his son until his death four years ago at 84. But in 1961 Washington's Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson hired Foley as a counsel to the Senate Interior Committee. In 1963 Jackson began urging his protege to run for the House. Foley agonized and held back for so long that in the end he arrived in the state capital to declare his candidacy just hours before...
Foley's top aide is his wife of almost 21 years, Heather. She joined her husband's staff in 1971, two years after earning her law degree, and serves now as his unpaid administrative assistant. Washington consultant Ted Van Dyk, an old friend, says that Foley needs someone like Heather to run interference for him. "He suffers fools," says Van Dyk. "Not gladly, but he suffers them...