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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Dershowitz, a high-profile defense attorney and civil libertarian, said in a letter he would ask the council to question nominee Paul Mahoney--now the chief aide to Senate President William M. Bulger--under oath about alleged comments concerning Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate...
...letter claims that Mahoney--who was nominated by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis--showed an ethnic bias against Silverglate, who represented land developer Harold Brown in an investigation of alleged improprieties over a project at 75 State...
...letter, Dershowitz also asserted that Mahoney intentionally spread false rumors about Silverglate in an effort to undermine his case...
...attitude was first signaled in 1988, when Kolvenbach was chosen as the preacher for the Vatican Lenten retreat, an honor that was bestowed upon John Paul himself just before he was elected to the Throne of St. Peter. Kolvenbach has been meticulous in carrying out papal directives to the letter, aides say, and he shrewdly picked the Pope's man, Pittau, as his liaison with the Holy...
...couple of these letter express chagrin at Pachter's accusations of director Beth Heller's "racist casting." This kind of response to this kind of statement is understandable, even laudable. But Pachter never makes this accusation. He instead writes that the two Black, non-chorus players were given "degrading roles for Black actors to play." Actress Lenore Jones was given the role of Mama, whom Pachter calls "sick and lecherous," and actor Tym Tombar was given the role of Amos, whom Pachter calls "simple, subservient, and constantly humiliated by his white, adulterous wife...