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-- Ellery Sedgwick, The Happy Profession, 1946
Yet the left at Harvard Law is unmistakably deflated. In his fall 1989 address to the incoming class, Dean Clark broke with the rigid custom that requires law school deans to urge their students to go to work for Ralph Nader after graduation, and said instead, "No part of the...
But with the advent of perestroika in recent years, the nature of Vessenski's profession in the Soviet Union is changing. As a high-ranking editor of the influential newspaper Literatunaya Gazeta, Vessenski has been on the cutting edge of the country's drive towards openness.
Those regrets were conspicuous by their absence last week. Bush, who as Vice President, made a profession out of going to funerals, passed up the rites for Atwater to go bonefishing in the Florida Keys; he sent Dan Quayle to the South Carolina ceremony and attended a Washington memorial service...
On Friday the cops finally broke their silence, naming William Smith as a suspect. The son of Jean Kennedy and the late Stephen Smith, William is described as one of the least spoiled and least arrogant of the young Kennedys. Instead of entering a profession where family connections make a...