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Freshman Andrew Flanagan (157 lbs.) won two matches for Harvard, one against Gene Zannetti of Penn and the other against Tyler Thurgood of Columbia, before he defaulted. Sophomore Jonathan Butler and freshman Thomas Picarsic both garnered a victory each. Also playing in the tournament were sophomore Matt Button, senior Mike Baria and freshman Wesley Walker...
...federal bench, by Lyndon Johnson in 1966, she received funds for college after a local philanthropist, Clarence Blakeslee, heard the then teenager speak at a community center. As a young lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she worked for two decades, she assisted Thurgood Marshall in preparing the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, and, following that 1954 ruling, took on what she called the "second civil war." Of the 10 school desegregation cases she argued before the Supreme Court, she won nine, among them James Meredith's high-profile fight to attend...
...Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Named to the Court in 1993 by Bill Clinton, Ginsburg replaced Byron White. Ginsburg is well known for her commitment to striking down laws that treat men and women differently; Clinton called her "the Thurgood Marshall of gender equity law." She shares Justice Breyer's conviction that law should serve the individual. Most likely to side with Justices Souter, Stevens and Breyer...
...Clarence Thomas: Appointed by George Bush in 1991, Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall in the closest confirmation vote in over a century (52-48). Since then, Thomas has earned a reputation as a conservative, in part for his very narrow reading of individual rights under the Constitution. He opposes affirmative action and Roe v. Wade, supports limited power for the Supreme Court and opposes the view that the Constitution is designed "to address all of the ills in our society." Thomas sides most often with Justice Scalia, concurring with the more senior judge almost 90 percent of the time...
DIED. KENNETH CLARK, 90, educational psychologist whose tiny, simply designed study of the emotional effects of segregation on black children was cited by Thurgood Marshall in Brown v. Board of Education, the case that led to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in 1954 that "separate but equal" schooling was unconstitutional; in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. In 1951, at a segregated school in South Carolina, Clark asked 16 African-American children ages 6 to 9 to compare life-size dolls that differed only in skin color; one had white skin, the other brown. The wrenching results reflected the childrens' painful...