Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professors end up carrying the burden, struggling with ways to tame the monster class. When a popular course is only offered every other year, class size explodes in order to accommodate the crowd. Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz's course, Historical Study B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice," attracted so many students that a restricting lottery was necessary. But when Horwitz attempted to remedy the evil by offering to teach his course every year, the Core office refused. Unwilling to face the hellish lottery process again, he reveals to FM he will...
According to Berkowitz's attorney, Matthew Feinberg of the Boston firm Feinberg & Kamholtz, future legal action would be based on the charge that Harvard failed to follow its own procedural standards in evaluating Berkowitz for the tenure appointment...
With 27 months of legal arguments winding down, PBHA officials said they may soon get their hands on a $1.3 million windfall from the estate of Margret E. Rey, the co-creator of the mischievous storybook monkey, Curious George...
Even PBHA was skeptical at first, according to officials. "The legal case against Ms. Ong was very strong," Mac-Donald said. "It's difficult to convince everybody that somebody said something at the end of her life...
...violent and vengeful rhetoric of Oppenheim's article calling for the frying of another human shows complete disrespect for the sanctity of human life. The racist death penalty is the final end in a legal system perpetuating injustice...