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...recent interviews, he said he was proudest of his work to plan major renovations on campus, including reconstruction of the Yard dorms and the makeover of Memorial Hall into a student center which will be completed next year...
After a period as clerk for then Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Breyer moved on to congressional staff work. It was his proudest achievement there to be architect of the plan by which Congress deregulated the airline industry in 1978. He has got more mixed grades for his work as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which established the federal guidelines that require judges in all parts of the country to hand down roughly equivalent sentences for comparable crimes. Many judges are furious over the guidelines, which they complain force them to issue sentences that do not take into...
...proudest of The Crimson when it points out the moral failings of the Harvard community and when it acts as a spur to the consciences of its readers. News judgment is similar to (but not identical to) a finely tuned sense of moral outrage. So it's been news over the last three years that Harvard didn't pay its clerical and technical workers enough for them to afford adequate child care...
...centuries A.D., highest of those who flit around the throne of God, created above the seraphim and distinguished from others by the fact that he possessed twice the maximum allotment of wings: 12. To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures. And it was pride that would lead to Satan's rebellion and eventual expulsion from heaven. But even in the depths of hell, he retained an awe-inspiring dignity. In the words of Milton's Paradise Lost, "With grave aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed...
...under assault. Governments are seeking to cut back womb-to-tomb protection for workers and the jobless, for mothers and children, for pensioners, the sick and the disabled. Companies pressed by global competition are trimming benefits. The steadily expanding safety net that had been one of the Continent's proudest achievements is starting to shrink. As the Maastricht Treaty set the European Community on the road toward a single currency and harmonized social policies, citizens were worried that the new Europe might be a good deal less kind than...