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...lawyers who have been challenging the Bush Administration's stance on Guantánamo for years hailed the Supreme Court decision as a major step forward. "The court has brought the Constitution home from exile," said Professor Eric M. Freedman, Maurice Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra and a longtime adviser to lawyers representing prisoners at Guantánamo. "Everyone who believes that America is a country devoted to the rule of law should celebrate because this ruling says that the Executive needs to be accountable to a neutral judicial forum in its decisions to imprison people...
These stories are not about me:In May 2007, the Harvard softball team drew regional host Hofstra for its opening game of the NCAA Tournament and sent newly minted Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick to the circle. With one beatable team and one powerhouse joining them in the round-robin, picking up a W against the Pride would be the key to the Crimson advancing in the tournament.Madick, dueling with Hofstra’s ace, cruised through the first three frames allowing only one hit before surrendering a go-ahead solo homer in the bottom...
...Warne, besides a collegiate career at Hofstra that included two All-America East Conference nominations, the defensive mastermind assisted at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he helped the Retrievers to a NCAA quarterfinal berth last season...
...does a man like this expect not to be caught? George Winner Jr., a New York state senator, told the New York Times that fellow legislators, upon first hearing that Spitzer had hired a hooker, believed it was a practical joke. Says Eric Lane, a law professor at Hofstra University: "This isn't Bill Clinton, where in one sense you would have expected it. This is a shock...
...York State Senate seat he assumed in 1985 was formerly held by his father, Harlem political leader Basil Paterson. On the other, he is legally blind (a disability that did not prevent him from completing the New York City Marathon in 1999). When the Columbia University and Hofstra Law School graduate became the State Senate's minority leader in 2002, it marked the first time an African American assumed that position. As governor, Paterson will add to his groundbreaking record by becoming the state's first black chief executive, and just the fourth in the nation's history - as well...