Word: minow
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...down other people." Even then, her approach to the law was meticulous and small bore, as in a piece she published in the law journal on a technical issue affecting potential Puerto Rican statehood. "She wasn't advocating for or against a particular position on statehood," says Martha Minow, a colleague at the journal who now teaches at Harvard Law School. "She was carefully parsing out the legal questions." (See four myths about Supreme Court nominees...
...Tribe, who says Obama was the most impressive student he has seen in his four decades on the faculty, remains an Obama advisor. And Newton N. Minow, a prominent and well-connected Chicago lawyer who had led the Federal Communications Commission under President John F. Kennedy ’40, proved to be an invaluable mentor for Obama during his early political runs...
...daughter Martha called to say that one of her best students, Barack Obama, wanted to spend the summer as a law firm associate in Chicago,” said Minow, referring to his daughter, law professor Martha L. Minow. “I called our partner John Levi, who heads our recruiting for the firm, and suggested this; John laughed and told me that he had already heard about Barack and had already hired...
...Minow added that his family has since become good friends with the Obama family, and has “supported him in his various campaigns, introduced him to friends, and invited the Obamas to local events...
...summer of 1989, Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin, a prestigious Chicago law firm that also happened to employ a young intellectual-property lawyer and Harvard Law grad named Michelle Robinson. Obama was offered a permanent job at Sidley, though senior partner Newton Minow wasn't surprised when he turned the firm down; the two had often discussed the intern's political plans, and Minow had pledged to help Obama in his pursuit of a place in public life. But Obama didn't just turn the firm down. Minow, a former Federal Communication Commission chairman, recalls that Obama told...