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Alito listed his CAP ties on a 1985 application for a Justice Department post, though Alito subsequently said that he had “no recollection” of his membership in the group...
...Senator Kennedy joined Harvard’s OWL [sic] club in 1954 before women were admitted to the campus and long before they were integrated into campus life,” Capps wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “He has decided to discontinue his membership, believing that it is a mistake to continue to be affiliated...
...Senator Kennedy joined Harvard's OWL club in 1954 before women were admitted to the campus and long before they were integrated into campus life,” Capps wrote in an e-mail today. “He has decided to discontinue his membership, believing that it is a mistake to continue to be affiliated...
...Harvard’s all-male final clubs, was unexpectedly thrust into the middle of the Supreme Court fight in Washington yesterday as conservatives criticized Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s membership in the club. Republican activists said that Kennedy, the senior Democrat from Massachusetts, had been hypocritical for attacking Judge Samuel A. Alito’s membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), a conservative group founded in 1972 in part to oppose coeducation at the university. Alito claimed to be a member of the alumni group in a 1985 job application. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh sought...
...oddly vague about his association with the group. He told his Senate inquisitors that he had searched his memory, and come up with no ?specific recollection" of joining the group-a weasely phrase that reeks of not-inhaling prevarication. Alito told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he supposed his membership had something to do with supporting the return of ROTC to the Princeton campus, a minor item on the CAP agenda. And yet, Alito remembered his membership well enough in 1985 to boast about it when applying for a job in the Reagan Justice Department. Being part...