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...also wrote a thesis. And took his generals. He headed into orals confident that he would graduate magna cum laude. After all, he had magnas from both his thesis readers, from both his written-generals readers, and he had magna grades...
...graduate of Cleveland's State University law school (where he won his degree magna cum laude while working as a newsman for a local TV station), Stern has knowledgeably interpreted every legal zigzag in the Watergate maze since he covered the arraignment of the original five burglars. Further, in a rare use of the 1967 Freedom of Information Act, Stern successfully sued the FBI to secure records-the latest of which were released to him last week-showing how the FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, had mounted a nationwide harassment campaign against militant black and leftist radical groups...
...looks like a bookkeeper on his way to nowhere. But he has long been the Securities and Exchange Commission's top cop as head of its tough Division of Enforcement and previously chief of its Division of Trading and Markets. Last week President Nixon promoted Lawyer Pollack (magna cum laude, Brooklyn Law School) to become one of the SEC'S five commissioners...
...test case involves a white graduate of the University of Washington, Marco DeFunis Jr., who was denied admission to the Washington law school. DeFunis graduated magna cum laude in 1970 with a 3.62 average and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His grades for his junior and senior years, combined with his LSAT score, were just below the level which would have won him automatic admission...
...CASE. This investigation-into whether there was any connection between ITT'S offer of $200,000 to the Republican Convention and the company's antitrust settlement with the Justice Department-is directed by handsome Joseph J. Connolly. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Connolly, 32, has served on the staffs of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1967 and of Solicitor General Erwin Griswold from...