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Earlier this year, Bobo moved to Stanford University with his wife, Marcyliena Morgan, who was associate professor of African and African American Studies. Professor of Government and African and African American Studies Michael C. Dawson announced a few weeks ago that he will move to the University of Chicago next year...
Accepting that his views no longer easily prevail, he has devoted himself instead to reining in the new court. "He does it by a very agile mind, a fluid pen and tireless work," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. The term just ended was a particularly satisfying one for Brennan, highlighted by his authorship of two decisions that strongly reasserted the constitutional separation of church and state. Brennan has spent nearly 29 years on the high bench fighting to uphold such principles, and he has some formidable weapons at his command...
...some court watchers, Brennan's latter-day accomplishments outshine his early years and will mark him in history as one of the high bench's great dissenters. While a member of the Warren court majority, he was guilty of writing some "slapdash" opinions, says Stanford's Gunther. "To my taste Brennan has been a hell of a lot better since he's had to articulate his views in dissent." In those opinions he generally answers the majority point by point and lays out a narrow interpretation of the ruling, which can be helpful to those who later challenge it. Justice...
...then Senator [Bob] Packwood heard I had these things, and said they ought to be put in the Smithsonian. So I looked, but I decided that they'd wind up behind some stuffed owl. Then Glenn Campbell of the Hoover Institution [of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University] wanted 'em, so I gave 'em to him. A few months later, I got an appraisal from Sotheby's for a deduction on my income tax. Well, since then I've been fighting the IRS. This Wednesday we're having a hearing. Seems they sent the films to Ray Hackie...
...taught at Harvard and Stanford, experiences that McPherson cited as valuable to her selection as director. He also mentioned “personality, and in some respects, her youth,” as Chang’s other outstanding features, adding that she gets along well with others...