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...also denied HSA the right to enroll any Summer School students—a prohibition with which HSA officers said they initially agreed to comply because they thought Queen’s request did not encompass Harvard undergraduates taking summer courses...
Following an initial round of e-mail correspondence about the course, Queen sent an e-mail to Summer School proctors on June 29 announcing that the bartending class had been entirely cancelled for the summer at his request...
...Rehnquist does step down, don't expect a bipartisan buddy system to play much of a part in choosing his successor. George W. Bush has already parried a request made this month by the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, for a fuller dialogue between the White House and Democrats on any high-court nominees. And if Sandra Day O'Connor should also retire this year, the struggle over her replacement could be judicial Armageddon, because O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy have been the court's crucial swing votes. If Bush could replace her with...
Power said the University would accommodate this request...
...devoted if inept steward of his legacy. As biographer Spurling notes, Brownell redeemed herself with a lawsuit that won control of Orwell's royalties for son Richard, who grew up in Scotland, where he still lives, and became a dealer in farm equipment. Brownell also enforced Orwell's request for no biographies, though after her death in 1980 the gates opened. One former Orwell girlfriend told Taylor he was the eighth biographer to approach her. There have been at least as many Orwell detractors. Hitchens spends his entire book ably rescuing the author from critics both left (E.P. Thompson, Raymond...