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DIED. JAMES D. ST. CLAIR, 80, trial lawyer who defended President Nixon during the Watergate impeachment proceedings; in Westwood, Mass. In 1954 St. Clair found renown as chief assistant to Joseph Welch, counsel for the U.S. Army during Senator Joseph McCarthy's communist investigation. During his storied career, St. Clair defended Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, tried for encouraging draft evasion (the charges were later dropped), and represented the Boston School Committee in its losing struggle against mandatory busing...
Iran has won international renown with films about children. Panahi made two of them: The White Balloon and The Mirror, about little girls stranded on the streets of Tehran. Now he reveals with unflinching sympathy how a female of any age can be lost in a man's world. The Circle is a dexterously constructed drama about one long night in the lives of half a dozen female ex-convicts in the Islamic republic, each of whom has been imprisoned, or may soon be, for such "crimes" as riding in a car with a man not her husband. This...
...Renown for his flair for publicity and a penchant for jogging suits, Sharpton is now pushing his own program of election reform, whose principal objectives are the adoption of a uniform standard for voting machines, vote-counting and voting roll purges...
...ranks. He may be championed these days as a "Gulf War hero," but Colin Powell is no "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf. His military career was that of a manager and organizer rather than a strategic visionary. For a man who rose so fast, Powell has remarkably few enemies - but his renown was earned as that of a no-nonsense facilitator who could make the trains run on time, rather than as a thinker or innovator. When the time came for war, he organized the winning team on Operation Desert Storm. But he hadn't exactly been gung ho about the need...
However, Schor has not only been an exemplary academic, she has been a beloved educator as well. Renown for her popular courses such as "Shop 'Til You Drop: Women and Gender in Consumer Society," Schor exemplifies that rare mix of intellectual rigor and concern for students that so many Harvard professors lack. The University will be hard pressed to find a professor as talented or dedicated to fill her roles...