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...addition, Prothrow-Stith said she lookedforward to using her contacts to help the Schoolof Public Health build a better name for itself inthe private and governmental health sectors. Shesaid she would like to see "a real public andprivate partnership" evolve...
Rehnquist is one of scores of distinguished legal figures who, with the same mixture of audacity and humility, started out at the top. They were law clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the small cadre of top young law graduates who each term help churn out the work of the nation's highest tribunal. The clerks' job description is simple, if daunting: to assist the Justices in the crafting of the nation's final judgments. Their responsibility, however, is bounded only by the discretion of the individual Justice for whom they work. Their duties, which last a year...
...what a thumbprint it can be. Each term the court must choose the 150 or so cases it will consider out of more than 4,000 petitions. The Justices -- six of whom pool their clerks for this purpose -- lean on the memos of their young assistants to help them pick the cases to hear. Once the docket is ^ selected, the clerks turn out even more detailed documents, called bench memos, exploring and analyzing all possible sides of the disputes, to prepare their Justices for the oral arguments...
Given that distasteful scenario, Washington's modest intervention into the affair last week was probably prudent. Baghdad ought to know it cannot terrorize its small neighbors with impunity. "All the Arabs in the gulf want us to help them against Iraq," says Rubin, "even if they can't say so." On the other hand, it is impossible to manage a belligerent like Saddam. America's best insurance against the tyranny of another oil shock remains what it has always been: to reduce dependency by conserving energy, even if prices do not go sky high...
...long ago, I asked an old friend who teaches at a university in Mississippi whether he thought today's young white Southerners had the same sense of the South that we had. There was a pause, and then he offered a story he thought might help frame the answer. During a recent history class, another teacher was suddenly interrupted by a student, a white Southerner, who looked up with a puzzled frown and asked, "Tell me again, which side was Sherman...