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With his impeccably pressed white shirts and wingtips, Spitzer would seem to be part of the Establishment, not its nemesis. But he has taken up crusades that are far removed from the usual concerns of a state attorney general, battling coal-burning power companies over acid rain, gun manufacturers over product liability, grocers for exploiting immigrant workers. Spitzer and the team of lawyers he recruited from the ranks of prestigious law firms and federal prosecutors' offices often work unorthodox legal strategies, dusting off little-used laws to help their cause. In the fight with Merrill, for example, New York relied...
Hundreds of people left after the rain started, but many graduates stayed in soaked academic regalia...
Some of the day’s speakers made light of the rain...
...rain clouds were not the only dampers on the proceedings. Scores of students wore red, white and blue ribbons in protest of the address by Yasin, in which he spoke of the meaning of “jihad” from his point of view as an American Muslim. Yasin’s speech, however, garnered one of the longest rounds of applause of the morning. (See related story...
...crowds that made entering the Yard so difficult quickly left when the rain started shortly into the ceremony. By the time Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes gave the closing benediction, the majority of seats were empty. His remarks were mercifully short for those remaining in the audience...