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...former U.S. Solicitor General, a top fund manager, and a British philanthropist are among the five new members of the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s second highest governing body...
From 1997 to 2001, Waxman served as the 41st Solicitor General of the U.S. A partner at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale, and Dorr, he has argued more than 45 cases before the Supreme Court...
...York Times in the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, in which the Nixon administration sought to block the Gray Lady from printing a classified report on the Vietnam War. The Times won the case—in part, according to Abrams, because Nixon’s lawyer, Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, performed “lamely” in front of the Supreme Court. (Griswold, a former Harvard Law School dean, will go down in the history books for being on the wrong side of the high court’s 6-to-3 landmark decision. But here on campus...
...There's a balance between free speech and reasonable protection of people's sensibilities," says Melbourne solicitor Murray Baird, a specialist in church law. "The Act does not achieve this. In my view it will lead to a general fear of speaking openly and plainly about religious matters." In free societies, says Australian Family Association vice-president Bill Muehlenberg, passion is the lifeblood of religious debate: "If you're serious about your faith and its truth claims, you're bound to be offended at times, or to cause offense." Elizabeth Kendal, a Melbourne-based religious liberty monitor for the World...
That argument sits well with the White House, which is also suing to in validate Gramm-Rudman. The Reagan Administration's chief courtroom attorney, Solicitor General Charles Fried, pressed the Administration's view before the Supreme Court last week. The Comptroller's duties under Gramm-Rudman "affect every nook and cranny of the Executive Department," he contended. During two hours of argument, twice the normally allotted time, lawyers for the House, the Senate and the Comptroller came to the law's defense. Steven Ross, representing the bipartisan leadership of the House, rejected the claim that the Comptroller was answerable...