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DIED. ARCHIBALD COX, 92, special prosecutor whose insistence that Richard Nixon hand over tapes of Oval Office conversations for the Watergate investigation got him fired in the Saturday Night Massacre of 1973; in Brooksville, Maine. A Harvard professor who served as solicitor general under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Cox lasted five months as chief of the investigation, which eventually led to Nixon's resignation...
...Officers were dispatched to Harvard Yard on a report of a solicitor. Officers spoke to the solicitor and checked for warrants with negative results. Officers issued a trespass warning...
...Jenny Martinez, Padilla’s lawyer, rightly challenges the basic assumptions the government made when her client was detained. The most important issue is whether Padilla, arrested on American soil, should be declared an enemy combatant in the first place. The government’s lawyer, Deputy Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, claims that because the war on terror is global the whole of the United States is a battleground as well. But if the Supreme Court accepts this justification, it will open the way for the Executive Branch to wield the same kinds of “emergency...
...family of Valentine's play is more symbolic. It includes not only high-profile Souths saviors like then-chairman George Piggins and solicitor Nick Pappas, but blind barracker Roger Harvey and mother and daughter Barbara Selby and Marcia Seebacher - just some of the 40 or so characters evoked by this skilful cast of 10. If you think Rabbit sounds like an episode of Australian Story on stage, you're not mistaken: Valentine has taken the dialogue from transcripts on the public record. But the cleverly constructed play, directed by Kate Gaul, comes off as a community's cry for self...
...clergyman, he decided to major in Pastoral Ministries, but soon after he matriculated, the state government revoked his scholarship, citing language in the state constitution which, unlike the federal constitution, explicitly bars any state funding to sectarian institutions. Yet what now is being debated, depicted on one side by Solicitor General Ted Olson as “the plainest form of religious discrimination,” is merely a reincarnation of an unarguably discriminatory time in America’s history...