Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Townsend is more clearly her father's philosophical heir, and she matches him in seriousness. A Harvard graduate and a lawyer, she has worked for the Massachusetts and Maryland attorney generals. Like her father, she chops the air with her palm when she speaks, and she talks compassionately of the dispossessed and disenfranchised. It remains to be seen whether she can move a district that is predominantly Democratic but moderate...
...best students want to go. "We're disappointed, selfishly, because those students aren't enrolling here," says Jean Fetter, dean of undergraduate admissions at Stanford, whose yield of 60% is second to Harvard's. A Harvard admission can be regarded as such a prize that one Wall Street lawyer, though he chose not to attend, keeps his framed acceptance on his wall so that other people will know he could have gone there...
...period of tremendous economic growth, made his remarks at a symposium entitled "The Future of Our Federal System," held at the Law School. The symposium was chaired by Byrne Professor of Law Richard T. Stewart and attended by Sen. William Roth (R-Del.) and William T. Coleman, a Washington lawyer who served as Secretary of Transportation during President Ford's Administration...
Like his wife, Sissela, a Brandeis philosopher, Bok tackles moral questions in lawyer-like debate. "He makes an effort to address ethical issues in a very public manner," Daniel Steiner '54, vice president and general counsel, says about his boss...
...gets visibly upset when asked questions about the Overseers election, perhaps indicating that he feels he let Harvard down or perhaps indicating that even though a cool lawyer, he has become emotionally tied to his client...