Word: lawyer
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...personnel chief, and reports directly to the University's general counsel, Daniel Steiner '54. The increasingly legalistic nature of labor relations at Harvard forced this change in the administrative structure. The University, or perhaps more precisely Steiner, felt that the labor post had become a job for a lawyer, which Powers is, and which Mullins...
Noble finally answers yes, but many others are less certain. "To publicize the fact that you are gay," says a lesbian lawyer in Chicago who has defended gays in civil rights cases, "is something that very few people can handle. All of these younger gays are coming out of the closet, and I'm ready to go back...
...rare. In Georgia, the Sodomy law was recently rewritten to apply to sex between lesbians. Unless cities have ordinances specifically forbidding it, gays can generally be barred or evicted from privately owned housing, without legal recourse. "Until recently, no avowed homosexual dared apply to medical or law schools," says Lawyer Marilyn Haft, co-author of The Rights of Gay People, a new American Civil Liberties Union handbook. "Now the political climate is such that it is less likely that a qualified homosexual applicant would be rejected out of hand." Homosexuals are still regarded as insurance risks, and state licensing laws...
Some pro-gays even argue that it is harder to be a homosexual than to be black. Wrote Lawyer Walter Barnett in Sexual Freedom and the Constitution: "It is easy to stand up for the right of a black as a human being, but hard to side with a 'queer.' No matter how closely the white civil rights enthusiast tries to identify with the plight of the Negro, blackness can never rub off on him. The aura of 'immorality...
Private marriage contracts are legally ambiguous, even when they are drawn up by lawyers, signed by witnesses and properly notarized. Contracts or no, courts will usually not intervene in a marriage or enforce any private contract provision that differs with state marriage law. Thus a wife whose marriage contract waives alimony and grants her husband the right to have extramarital affairs could conceivably win a divorce on the grounds of adultery and get her alimony too. But contracts between unmarried lovers are not limited by established marriage law. If a couple wants to make sure that their agreement has legal...