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LEON HIGGINBOTHAM earned a national reputation as lawyer, jurist, teacher, scholar and activist. His achievements are especially meaningful to me, a friend of 40 years, because Leon spoke out strongly on racial issues. His admonishments to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are well known, but few are aware he appointed more minority clerks than any other judge...
DIED. A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM JR., 70, esteemed federal judge and scholar; of complications from several strokes; in Boston. Higginbotham, a civil rights advocate who called himself a "survivor of segregation," was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--in 1995 when he retired from the bench (see Eulogy, below...
Goldstein is the only woman from Harvard to beselected as a Marshall scholar in the past twoyears. Last year all eight Marshall scholars weremen--a situation Bohlmann dubbed "highly unusual...
...public announcement of the Marshallscholars was delayed for a week in the wake ofsimilar Rhodes scholar awards. The Marshallcommission did not want to be "overshadowed" bythe Rhodes list, which was made public December 5,said Alison McGrain, a spokesperson for the pressand public affairs office at the BritishConsulate-General in Boston...
...likely be heading for hangs in another part of the National Gallery of Art. It is "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868," a magnificent selection of nearly 300 works in every medium, from woodblock prints to lacquerware, from tiny netsuke to eight-fold painted screens, assembled by the American scholar Robert Singer and mostly lent by Japanese institutions. It is replete with objects listed in Japan as "National Treasures" and "Important Cultural Properties," many of which have never been seen outside Japan until now. No Edo show of such range or quality has been attempted in the U.S. before...