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Dukakis graduated from Harvard Law School in 1960, served three terms as Massachusetts governor, and lost the 1988 election to former President George H.W. Bush. He said that politicians today do not face the same intense scrutiny from journalists they once did. “Nowadays, they don’t do investigative journalism well,” he said. “You can put a lot over on them...
...wasn’t even on my radar when I [came to Harvard],” says Quimbaya, who is now juggling pre-veterinary classes at the Extension School and graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology. “People came here for medicine, business, or law. The pre-vet community was virtually invisible...
...youngest mayor in Detroit's history pled guilty to obstruction of justice and assaulting a police officer. He was sentenced to six months in prison. According to the terms of his probation, Kilpatrick resigned, pledged never again to run for elected office and surrendered his public pensions and law license. He also agreed to pay Wayne County, Michigan, which includes Detroit, a restitution of nearly $1 million. So far, Kilpatrick has paid about $90,000 of that sum. But despite having a $120,000-a-year job in Dallas with a subsidiary of Compuware, the billion-dollar software company based...
Kilpatrick's story is, by any measure, tragic. He was born into one of Michigan's powerful political families. His mother Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick was until recently chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Tall and brawny, he played football at historically black Florida A&M University, studied law and rose quickly as a young representative in Michigan's legislature. By 2001, he was elected Detroit's mayor at age 31, partly by energizing this city's disaffected youth. His flashy suits, diamond-stud earrings and inaugural "club crawls" proclaimed his comfort with being called "America's first hip-hop mayor...
...Kilpatrick's mess are now fighting for their own careers. "I put my family through an incredible year of tremendous pain," Kilpatrick told reporters last month, clearly seeking sympathy. America loves a story of redemption. But Kilpatrick's constant excess, and his view that somehow he is above the law, makes absolution a difficult sell...