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...Souter was equally troubled by exhortations from Gordon and the Solicitor General that school districts should seek "race-neutral" alternatives. "At the end of the day, the object is... the achievement of racial mixture," Souter said. "Why do they have to hide the ball?" Candor, he suggested, is better than some clumsy proxy for achieving integration...
...rich boys, Andrew went to Charterhouse and Cambridge, as he predicted; became a solicitor, as he predicted; at 35 a partner; at 49 took a job as an executive at an industrial gas company. John became a Queen's Counsel, married the daughter of an ambassador to Bulgaria and devotes himself to charities for Bulgarian children because, he says, "Who wants to be the richest corpse in the graveyard?" But he hasn't lost his corrosive upper-crust wit: "I reckon if I shoot the horses, shoot the wife, and only drink Bulgarian wine, I may be able to retire...
...eventually admitted to the school that originally rejected him and is now a fourth-grader there). While dozens of civic organizations, the Louisville Chamber of Commerce and five former Secretaries of Education have sided with the school district, the Bush Administration has taken up Meredith's cause. The Solicitor General submitted a brief arguing that schools should not be in the business of racial balancing and that even Brown v. Board Ed. declared that public schools should ultimately admit students "on a nonracial basis...
...telling a story," he says. But "I don't go beyond the facts." Digging like an archaeologist through mountains of material?histories, news reports, letters, diaries, photos?he picks out the details that bring the past, and the dead, to life. Brigadier-General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, a solicitor, describes men "going down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan at the back of the attack but it is difficult to know what it was." Sergeant Archie Barwick, a farmer, writes of the German bombardment at Pozi?res: "Men were driven stark staring...
During oral arguments last December, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement was asked if a law school can “organize a line [of people] jeering both the recruiters and the applicants...