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...some students criticize the value of the school's curriculum--which focuses on primarily American case studies. Fernandez, who sent a memo about the curriculum to faculty members, points to several problems with using American cases. Most, he says, assume a very stable environment and a working constitution which are often lacking in the developing world. "They don't teach you to react in a catch-as-catch-can world," he adds...
...civilized country?" asked Chief Justice Warren Burger in a speech last year. He was talking generally about violent crime and the criminal justice system. But like other citizens, he is personally worried. Among the hostages, Burger is now suggesting, are the nine members of the Supreme Court. In a memo to key Congressmen, the chief endorsed legislation authorizing the 71-member Supreme Court police force to carry guns off court property while accompanying the Justices or performing other duties. Threats against judges are on the rise nationally, and some have been made against the Justices, including two against Sandra...
...charges against Donovan have not been substantiated. But the fact that serious allegations involving the Labor Secretary were buried in FBI files during two investigations is disturbing. Webster has launched an internal inquiry into why the reports were tucked away for more than a year. According to a memo by Webster, the probe has so far disclosed only a bureaucratic runaround: "The failure to disseminate this information was due in part to a belief on the part of the Newark division that the information had been furnished to the special section at FBI headquarters . . . Bureau managers of the special-inquiry...
Resentment reached the flash point with Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Meg Greenfield when she "looked at the disaster area that is my desk and saw that everything on it had two or three p.r. firms' names on the letterhead." Greenfield sent a fiery memo to Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. "We don't want any of that damned crowd around here," she wrote. "If people want to get to us ... it's as easy as pie, so long as they don't come in (or send their manuscripts in or make a request...
...repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well: modern dance has risen from the floor-where it lay in defiance of ballet-to employ an immense treasure of movement and lyricism. To date, Court is the most accomplished announcement of that rebirth. Memo to June Taylor: Move over...