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...White House counsel begins her formal prep sessions this week for a confirmation hearing that's likely to start in early November, President Bush will hold a photo op with former chief justices of the Texas Supreme Court who will testify to Miers' qualifications and legal mind. The White House's 20-person "confirmation team" will line up news conferences, opinion pieces and letters to the editor by professors and former colleagues who can talk about Miers' experience dealing with such real-world issues as the Voting Rights Act when she was a Dallas city council member and Native American...
...less to get here if you start on the upper half of the economic ladder, from which more than 80 percent of the college still hails. This University has always embraced class-based affirmative action, but of an inverse sort based on the self-perpetuating system of legacies and prep school pipelines...
There is an unspoken code to all of this, first formed in the prep academies and magnet schools where so many were conditioned to this kind of privileged life, then refined and reinforced by the divisive institutions of our Harvard lives—from official policies and regulations to the student snobbery of final clubs and DormAid...
...Tennessee, who served as adviser/shepherd to Roberts. Thompson's schedule does not allow it, the aides said. Ed Gillespie, the lobbyist and former RNC chairman, will take on some of those duties but will leave his full-time status as a "special government employee" (albeit a volunteer) to help prep Miers...
...played at clubs around the world, and there’s no place like this,” says trumpeter Jason Palmer, whose band, the Jason Palmer Jazz Collective, played Wally’s on Saturday night. Palmer, 26, teaches at the Conservatory’s prep school...