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...originally encountered opposition to her place on the SJC bench when she was nominated as an associate in 1996. Some said then-Governor William F. Weld '66 should have nominated a African-American judge for the seat, since the Massachusetts bench had until that time been occupied entirely by white males, with only one exception. But many pointed to her stance on racial matters; prior to immigrating to the U.S., she was active in anti-apartheid matters in her native South Africa. And so despite her detractors, Marshall became the second woman ever to sit on the SJC bench...
...these friends did not wish for his name to be forgotten with the passage of time. On October 28, 1985, the three-foot high brick structure bearing his brass plate was unveiled amid a spectacular ceremony, complete with band, flag-draped platform, military color guard, and a proclamation from then-Governor Michael Dukakis. At the event, a friend of the family perfectly summed up Kelly as "a true American...
...President will not testify at the trial. And David Brock, the man who introduced the world to "a woman known only as Paula" in his infamous Troopergate story, has admitted he made a mistake -- not only in assaulting Clinton's character, but also in identifying the woman the then-governor supposedly had brought to his hotel room. "I should have removed the name," writes Brock. "It was just an oversight...
WASHINGTON: It used to be the $700,000 question; now it's the $2 million question: Did then-Governor Clinton proposition then-employee Paula Jones in an Arkansas hotel? Jones' attorney David Pyke has just upped the ante by a cool $1.3 million ? and demanding "something that is pretty close to an apology" ? from the embattled President. With Clinton's deposition date due Saturday, when he will sit and speak, under oath, across the table from Jones, Pyke cannot be faulted for raising the odds...
...Border Books in Phoenix, Arizona, last Wednesday, it didn't take too much imagination to reduce the temperature by 70 degrees, raze the palm trees, and picture another gray-haired politician caught in press gridlock in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1992, right after Gennifer Flowers made her charges against then-Governor Bill Clinton. Now it's Gingrich's turn, and it's Anne Manning, a former campaign worker, who went on the record for the first time in a just-published Vanity Fair article saying she had an affair with Gingrich while he was married to his first wife...