Word: public-interest
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...very early exposure to the stakes involved at the Presidential level when I was sent by the Securities and Exchange Commission to assist in an aspect of the Watergate prosecution. So I've been sort of engaged in things ever since. I was chairman of Common Cause, the public-interest lobby founded by John Gardner, and on the board of Washington advocacy groups which espouse reasonable gun laws, reproductive freedom, women's and family health issues and the like...
...notion that whatever the teacher says goes began to fade in the1960s. Outrage over racism, poverty and the Vietnam War made questioning authority a righteous cause in schools as well as on the streets. But students also attracted attention from public-interest lawyers who believed that stronger rights of expression would allow children to get a better education. Their first big victory came in 1969 with the black-armband case, called Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. In a 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom...
...most prominent member, Lazard CEO Bruce J. Wasserstein, is an alumnus of both institutions and has been a major benefactor of HLS. He was one of 11 alumni who gave $5.1 million to the school in 2003. In addition, the Wasserstein family has endowed both a professorship and public-interest law fellowship at the law school...
...going to be," says Vera Garrity, 24, a Young Heroes and City Year alumna now in her second year at the University of Virginia Law School. "After being in City Year, no matter what I do, I will always do service," says Garrity, who is planning a career in public-interest law. "After seeing people who are so committed and who are sacrificing so much or struggling so hard, it is impossible not to think about how you can help. It just becomes part...
...middle class, dazzling preparations for the Olympics and so forth. But it is always worth getting a reality check on what underlies that rosy picture, the fact that China remains a highly repressive authoritarian state. I met recently in a small Beijing cafe with social activist Teng Biao and public-interest lawyer Li Heping, two unassuming gentlemen who are painfully well aware of the lengths the Chinese system will go to preserve itself...