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...against interracial marriages. Never mind that shortly thereafter, in the early 1960s, he prosecuted a popular Ku Klux Klan leader and lost re-election because of it. Apparently all that matters is the few hundred words he wrote over 40 years ago. (Advice for Harvard law students: avoid writing, lest someone clobber you over the head with your juvenescent opinions a generation from...
...9/11 when an agent reported that terrorists were planning to smuggle a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon into New York City. Over the next few days, I and other members of the Washington bureau worked the tip, discovering that the threat had indeed been taken seriously but was kept secret lest it cause panic. This week I returned to diplomacy to report on America's sudden decision to re-engage in the Middle East, its expanded efforts against al-Qaeda around the world and the slow-moving U.S. push to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq...
...lest we forget: even more disturbing than the victorious, healthy plaintiffs are those who are sick and feel shortchanged. It's this trend that Huber v. Taylor hopes to address. Federal Judge Donald J. Lee will assess that case's merits in coming months...
...long incubation period, and we're still seeing cases where the exposure took place in World War II," says Kazan. "How will cancer victims 40 years from now be compensated?" Adding to the problem: thousands of healthy plaintiffs, worried they may be left out, file claims to protect themselves lest a firm go bankrupt before they show any symptoms...
...Lest anyone make the mistake of thinking that this behavior is merely a reflection of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ abrasive style, it might be well to recall that more than a decade ago, when a group of alumni managed to elect Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Board of Overseers as part of a campaign to persuade Harvard to divest its South African holdings, the response of then-President Derek C. Bok was to change the rules for electing Overseers so that no one like Tutu would be elected in the future. Once Nelson Mandela was released...