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...world teetered on the edge of an Enlightened age, Harvard’s new presidents dove right in. After a brief interim leader, John Leverett, class of 1680, was appointed in 1708 and would preside until 1728. Leverett, a lawyer and politician, was the first lay president to hold the office. While Mather was predictably nonplussed with the secularizing move, his protests went unheeded...
...After three years of this work, I went to law school, because I wanted to understand how the law should work for those in need. I became a civil rights lawyer, and taught constitutional law, and after a time, I came to understand that our cherished rights of liberty and equality depend on the active participation of an awakened electorate. It was with these ideas in mind that I arrived in this capital city as a state Senator...
...life of a tall, gangly, self-made Springfield lawyer tells us that a different future is possible...
...true trends. They trot out the cut-time bridge, the major key resolution to a minor key tune on “The Take Over, the Break’s Over,” the phaser-distorted vocals on “I’m Like A Lawyer with the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off.” The variety in the songs depends on how the producer stitches these elements together. Think Newfound Glory, MxPx, Fenix TX, or any of a dozen other 90s pop-punk bands; every element of this disc...
...seemed highly unlikely a new trial would actually begin on March 19. Seitz, Watada's lawyer, said there would be scheduling conflicts and that in any case he would file an immediate motion to dismiss the case whenever it was finally reconvened. "It is my opinion that Lieut. Watada cannot be tried again because of the effect of double jeopardy," he said, contending that because it was prosecutors who asked for the mistrial, and because the judge granted the mistrial over the opposition of defense lawyers, the prosecutors could not subsequently retry Watada...