Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During an especially low moment of the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared that "for goodness' sake, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks." Thurgood Marshall's legal career proves otherwise. Juan Williams' magisterial biography of the great civil rights lawyer and first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (Times Books; 459 pages; $27.50), reminds us that there is a difference between the hair-splitting legalisms that dominate the current headlines and the rule of law that changes history. Marshall never represented a bank. His clients were African Americans deprived of their...
...mysterious woman in heaven who chose the body of a beautiful Asian because of a fleeting memory from her childhood suggests fascinating possibilities left unexplored. But, most of the effective sections are marred by an egocentric focus on Williams' Chris Nielsen, as if heaven exists only for his sake. The film suggests that heaven for Nielsen is a place where all human lives have been shaped entirely...
...different they really were: one charming and vain; the other fusty and proud. And both of them so needy. Then came the bickering, the betrayal, the recriminations--and the long, frosty silences. Now the question is: Should Bill Clinton and the Democrats in Congress stay together for the sake of the family, or would the party be better off if they went their separate ways...
...still underdeveloped. You can't expect us to take on every task that adults seem to be able to handle. Have sympathy for a teenager, will you? Go ahead and petition for that new law; I'm all for it. But leave the poor guy alone, for heaven's sake. JUDY LI, 16 Walnut, Calif...
...leaving aside the value of diversity forits own sake, Harvard's current lag in minorityhiring has potentially harmful consequences forits athletic programs...