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...reading] re-opened my ears to poetry... It's exciting to see poetry proclaimed as a public event," said previous Kennedy fellow Henry Morgenthau, whose grandfather was the U.S. ambassador to Turkey during the pogrom...
John Jr., who has dated the actress Darryl Hannah on and off for more than five years, is also a lawyer, and spent four years working as an assistant district attorney in New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau's office before quitting last summer. His current projects include looking into starting a nonpartisan magazine about politics. "He was very excited to introduce people at the office to his mom," says a former colleague at the Manhattan D.A.'s office. "He was like, 'This is my mom!' It was cute. I got the impression that he talked to her about things...
State Department foot dragging was eventually brought to the President's attention by the Treasury Department, whose Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., was Jewish. F.D.R. responded by setting up an interdepartmental War Refugee Board that ultimately rescued and repatriated about 200,000 European Jews...
...federal offenses, including the attempted assassination of the President; today, only a drug-related killing is a capital crime. Those on the front lines are appalled. "I know of no law-enforcement professional who believes the ((new)) death-penalty provisions would affect public safety in the slightest," says Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's respected district attorney. Equally troublesome, declared Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the death penalty "remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake." According to a 1987 Stanford University survey, at least 23 Americans have been wrongly executed in the 20th century. Just since 1973 an additional 48 have...
...ROBERT MORGENTHAU...