Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's top legal position has been vacant since October when former general counsel Margaret H. Marshall was named to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
...produce its original applicant pool, Harvard canvassed alumni and legal professionals across the country and advertised the position in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Gazette...
...motion to dismiss was one aspect of our legal case and the fact that the judge did not accept it is not unexpected at all and we weren't counting on it," says Conroy...
...therefore think that the bill would receive widespread bipartisan support. But some prominent Republicans have taken to calling it the "Kennedy Bill," and so it is now far from clear that the bill will pass. Certainly, the tobacco companies will protest the legislation. However, we believe that their recent legal--and consequently political--difficulties make it less likely that they will succeed this time. We would like to see both parties and both houses of Congress cooperate on an issue so crucial to the nation...
...take a more libertarian view. I am also concerned about possible abuses, but I don't think that legal restrictions are either a practical or an ethical way to prevent them. On the contrary, I believe that we can only prevent such abuses by creating a society in which gays and lesbians are valued as individuals and as a group of people who make a unique contribution to society...