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...that meeting, though, officials were surprised to see a new face--Philip Perry. As the top lawyer for the White House's Office of Management and Budget, Perry helped oversee Administration regulatory initiatives. According to Bob Bostock, then homeland-security adviser at the EPA, Perry, who hadn't attended any of the prior meetings, declared the proposal dead in a matter of minutes. "Perry said that any federal legislation to deal with this issue would be dead on arrival on the Hill," recalls Bostock, "and that the chemical industry was taking voluntary steps that were sufficient." Perry, who is married...
...could become a permanent resident / I could become your next President,” he sang, to the tune of “Razzle Dazzle”—a number he performed in his Golden Globe-winning turn as lawyer Billy Flynn in the movie musical, “Chicago...
...University of Michigan Law School and eventually returned to Cambridge with Johnson.Reeves, a Detroit native, says that going to law school made him miss his college city. “There’s no comparison between Ann Arbor and Cambridge,” he says.After working as a lawyer for several years, Reeves mounted his first City Council campaign in 1985. He lost—but ultimately won a seat four years later.A VISION OF CAMBRIDGEReeves says he would like to see more students follow in his footsteps and fall in love with their adopted hometown...
Yale history professor Paul M. Kennedy was arrested Feb. 2 after allegedly hitting a student with his car and faces five charges, including driving under the influence of a controlled substance, according to the professor’s lawyer. Gregory J. Pepe, the defendant’s lawyer, said that the professor is innocent and that he is sure all charges will be dropped at Kennedy’s March 7 hearing. Kennedy was not drunk at the time of the incident and the arrest was due to the police officer’s misconstruing Kennedy’s physical...
...owner of a local car dealership. Mohammad Amawi operates a small travel agency. El-Hindi, a married father of seven children ages 6 months to 11 years old, claims he was arrested Sunday by agents who entered his home without knocking and seized him at gunpoint. Says his lawyer, Stephen Hartman: "He steadfastly maintains his innocence." All three men pleaded not guilty on Tuesday and are being held in a federal correctional facility in Milan, Michigan, until their detention hearing...