Word: michigan
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Coming even as the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation of practices at the Rocky Flats, Colo., nuclear-weapons plant, the report sketched a variety of lapses. Many were not disclosed, said Democratic Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, committee and subcommittee chairman, because of "obsessive secrecy." Among them...
...their clients may depend on the whim of law-enforcement officials. "No one who has law school loans, a mortgage to pay and kids to feed can afford to practice this kind of law anymore," said Scott Wallace of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Noted University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "The decisions will chill a lot of lawyers' interest in representing defendants in the very type of complex criminal cases where astute and experienced counsel are most needed...
...predecessor. But Democrats Robert Byrd, the former Senate majority leader, and John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, also blocked legislation, in deference to the fears of miners of high-sulfur coal in Byrd's West Virginia and automakers and -workers in Dingell's Michigan...
When word of the massacre in Tiananmen Square first reached the University of Michigan, the 250 Chinese students studying there jumped into action: they purchased a fax machine. Daily summaries of Western news accounts and photographs were faxed to universities, government offices, hospitals and businesses in major cities in China to provide an alternative to the government's distorted press reports. The Chinese students traded fax numbers back home along the computer network that links them around the U.S. The fax brigades at Michigan were duplicated on many other campuses. "We want everyone to see that there's blood...
Linda S. Wilson, a University of Michigan administrator with a background in chemistry, was named the seventh president of Radcliffe last week after a search which took the school more than 16 months to complete. Wilson, in an interview on the day of her appointment by the Board of Trustees, describes her experience with the search process and her concept of the presidency...