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Souter, who is a 1966 graduate of Harvard Law School and served as an associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice for 19 years, received an honorary doctor of law degree...
Philosopher Thomas Nagel was awarded an honorary doctor of laws. Nagel, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1963 and studied under philosopher John Rawls, is currently a professor of philosophy and law at New York University...
Educator Freeman A. Hrabowski III received an honorary doctor of law. He is the president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he co-founded the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program to increase the diversity of future leaders in science, technology, engineering, and related fields in 1988. In 2009, Time magazine named Hrabowski one of America’s 10 best college presidents...
...entire world, a sex-abuse scandal arose in the Catholic Church. We appreciate Pope Benedict XVI’s letter of apology, but note that he was misguided in invoking faith as a solution to the crisis. We advocate treating the occurrence of abuse by priests foremost as a law-enforcement issue because we feel that no one, not even the clergy, should be above the law. We also believe that the Church could do more to handle the epidemic of pedophilic priests from a management perspective, decentralizing authority to local dioceses and providing instructional courses about how to report...
...also were pleased to see the arrest of Hollywood director and part-time child rapist Roman Polanski by the Swiss police. We expressed disgust at the arguments made by some in Hollywood that Polanski deserved clemency due to being an artist, as if artists were above the law. We reject this hypocritical position and asserted firmly that the law is the law...