Word: alderman
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Surely it is not a coincidence, then, that Caroline Kennedy finds herself drawn to the subject of privacy. Following the law-for-the-layman formula of the bestselling In Our Defense, a book on the Bill of Rights that she and Ellen Alderman, a friend from Columbia Law School, wrote in 1991, Kennedy and Alderman have produced The Right to Privacy (Knopf; $25). The new book skillfully weaves together unfamiliar, dramatic case histories with a survey of the laws governing what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called "the right to be let alone." Looking at assaults on privacy...
Kennedy and Alderman, both 37, took on this subject when they realized that readers of their first book frequently asked them about privacy. When they began their research they were skeptical about whether a serious assault on privacy was under way. Says Alderman, who lives in Maine with her lawyer husband William Harwood: "We thought, Can it really be that bad? But when you look at [the issues] all together, it's really disturbing what's happening." To make this clear, the authors open the book with perhaps the most sensational of their case studies: the story of several women...
...came together in Rome, where Poussin spent most of his life. Born in Normandy in 1594 (his father was a military officer, his mother an alderman's daughter), he was educated, probably by Jesuits, in Paris, and turned to painting before he was 20. A chance encounter with Giambattista Marino, the floridly precious Neapolitan poet who had taken political asylum at the Paris court of Marie de Medicis, led to introductions in Rome, and he went there in 1624. From then until his death in 1665, Poussin returned to France only once, for a brief two years (1640-42), during...
According to New Haven Alderman Josh Civin, a junior, Yale does not have enough space to house all of its students and depends on students to move off-campus...
...When the thing came to the floor discussion got out of control and... the Alderman passed a solution which set bad precedents," Levin said...