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...Faculty. Guinier said in an interview earlier this fall that he came away convinced that Ford and Pusey were sincere in their efforts to help him organize the institute. The Afro Department chairman also indicated that Pusey promised Guinier that he would use his influence to help obtain foundation funding...
...seems that Federal attorneys seek to obtain information useful for political in timidation--information to stop "leaks" to newsmen and scholars from government sources Popkin agreed in court last week to answer the grand jury's question concerning Daniel Ellsberg '52. He agreed to provide the names of scholars with whom he had spoken who led him to his knowledge of the participants in the Pentagon Papers study. The government and the court were unmoved by his concessions...
...Washington's top law firms obtain such power and influence? Most develop a small class of Superlawyers, mostly Ivy educated, whose professions range between tax legislation, regulatory standards, international treaties, and Ford Motor Corporation litigations. They become, Goulden writes, "the interface that holds together the economic partnership of business and government...
...clear that the real responsibility for these deaths lies not so much with one man or one gun as with the diseased structure of Southern public education Black college administrators, like Southern's President. Dr. G. Leon Netterville, are forced to take hats in hand in order to obtain substance funding from white legislators, notorious for a traditional lack of concern for black people and for education in general...
Just as uninspiring as the Study Group suggestions for reform is the last chapter--a "Primer for Citizen Action." Provided to instruct citizens on how to obtain both institutional changes and policy improvement, the primer stresses that "Congress has been moved by men and women with no special wealth or influence, little or no political experience, and no uncommon genius, but with the modest combination of commitment to a cause and the facts to make a case." Like the Wizard of Oz telling the lion that he needed only a medal, Douglass W. Cassel, the author of this section, counsels...