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...Michael H. Posner, the executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, one of the non-governmental organizations instrumental in the formation of the FLA, said the association will make several institutional changes in response to the inclusion of colleges and universities...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Joins Sweatshop Oversight Group | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...will add a college and university representative to its board, a full time college and university staff position and will create an advisory council with members from each affiliated school, Posner said...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Joins Sweatshop Oversight Group | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...identified by Pepper as the mastermind of the plot. He turns out to be a retired auto worker in New York State; he also denies any wrongdoing, and there's no evidence against him either. There are many more examples of Pepper's recklessness, especially in Gerald Posner's new book on the King assassination, Killing the Dream. But you get the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Earl Ray, Cause Celebre? | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

According to Richard Posner and Katherine Silbaugh's "A Guide to Americas Sex Laws" (University of Chicago Press, 1996)--housed on the P3 level of Pusey Library, where all the really good books are--fellatio is illegal in the nation's capitol. Very illegal. Silbaugh and Posner read D.C. Code Annual 22-3502 (enacted 1948) as designating it a felony to "take the sexual organ of another person in ones mouth...or to place ones sexual organ in the mouth...of another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUT DID SHE INHALE? | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

What's more, under another statute Clinton would be guilty of misdemeanor adultery, although Lewinsky would not. D.C. Code Annual 16-904(b)(3) (enacted 1963), Posner and Silbaugh explain, stipulates that "when [adultery] is between a married woman and an unmarried man, both parties are guilty." On the other hand, when it occurs "between a married man and an unmarried woman, only the man is deemed guilty." Tough luck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUT DID SHE INHALE? | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

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