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...Harvard's upcoming commencement of law students and the Class of '93 the administration is showcasing two of the bloodiest recipients of official crimson acclaim in recent memory. On June 9th, President Clinton's new Attorney General Janet Reno will be the Harvard Law School's commencement speaker, exactly 50 days since she ordered the assault on the Waco religious sect causing the fiery massacre of 86 innocent people, including 25 children. This grotesque FBI assault against the Branch Davidians was carried out, as the government put it for "espousing doctrines hostile to law enforcement. "The next day, Harvard will...
...libel cases have dragged on longer or sullied both sides more than the suit by Freudian psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker, who pilloried him in a 1983 profile, that was finally brought before a jury last week. Masson, a scholar of Sanskrit who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, contends that since the article was published he has been all but unemployable. No longer a therapist, he has written books including the critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living...
...incarceration costs that average $20,000 a person each year, judges often welcome the alternatives to imprisonment that consultants are paid to contrive. Recent efforts to loosen federal sentencing guidelines, which restrict a judge's discretion in letting convicted offenders avoid prison, could further this trend. Attorney General Janet Reno has announced she will review and possibly dispense with sentencing guidelines for minor drug offenses, and U.S. District Judge Harold Greene declared guidelines unconstitutional in a variety of cases. A change in the federal procedure could allow judges greater leeway to find creative alternatives to prison terms, and thus give...
Attorney General Janet Reno urged Congress to draft legislation barring abortion-clinic blockades and the harassment of doctors, patients and staff by antiabortion protesters...
...There's always a fear that you're going to be terminated because of your absences," said Janet Dean, a general service worker at the Quincy House dining hall...