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Frederick Schauer, Stanton professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School, and his wife Virginia J. Wise, lecturer on law for legal research at the Law School, decided to come to Harvard in 1990 over an offer from the University of Chicago...
...Wise says the University of Chicago was just "going through the motions" with her hiring process and that they really wanted her husband...
Susan Isaacs has written a succession of deft, funny thrillers set on Long Island, New York--Compromising Positions is one of the best--about wise-guy women who talk themselves in and out of some fairly deadly predicaments. The better half of her new novel, Lily White (HarperCollins; 460 pages; $25), carries on cheerfully with this agreeable storytelling. The main character, Lily White, is a 45-year-old defense attorney whose new client is a gifted con man. He's a tall, awkward fellow who seems too clumsy to be slick, but his specialty is romancing rich, lonely, middle-aged...
...percent of those surveyed view the First Lady unfavorably. It's no wonder, considering Hillary is close to the center of just about every White House controversy to date: Whitewater, the Travel Office purge, Filegate, Vince Foster's death, and the failed health-care reform task force. "Hillary is wise enough to know she's a liability for her husband right now," says Carney. "But that doesn't mean she should stay out of the public completely. She is a popular figure among some slices of the electorate. She can be a very effective speaker to drum up support among...
...next president should have the ability to reverse the tide of the last few decades where the political agenda has been mainly concerned with adjudicating the roles of market and government without addressing the loss of community and the erosion of civic life. The presidential candidates would be wise to pay attention to these needs regardless of their party inclination. They should heed the call of well-meaning individuals like former U.S. senator Bill Bradley, who called for a politics that focused more on the institution of civil society. Neither the market nor government is "equipped to solve America...