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...fund-drive volunteers, Barber works through the Harvard Campaign offices at Holyoke Center, contacting his classmates by telephone. He has two problems in eliciting donations from classmates that older alumni of the '40s and 50s don't face. The first one is obvious and is a problem that every solicitor of young alumni must face: "The younger classes haven't been working as long and don't have as much to give," he says. The other problem is strictly a result of the times in which Barber and his classmates went to school. "A lot of people still have...
...acts of will and intelligence and anticipation that make a society coherent, that hold it together. If they cannot be trusted, then the whole structure begins to wobble. If the air-traffic controllers do not care to recite Frost, they might consider William Murray, Britain's Solicitor General in the 18th century: "No country can subsist a twelvemonth where an oath is not thought binding, for the want of it must necessarily dissolve society." -By Lance Morrow
Former Deputy Solicitor General Frank Easterbrook, professor of law at the University of Chicago, cites some less familiar areas where the Justices put their stamp. "They have completely overhauled antitrust law, by unanimous votes in many cases," he says...
...police and the FBI continued to seek evidence that might link him to the mass murders, Williams took the offensive. His lawyer, former City Solicitor Mary Welcome, sought a federal court injunction to restrain 17 news organizations and eleven law enforcement agencies and officials from releasing information that might harm her client. The "blitzkrieg of media harassment" and various statements by the authorities, charged Welcome, have already "irreparably destroyed the presumption of innocence" to which Williams is constitutionally entitled if brought to trial. Williams' petition named, among others, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, the three...
...time Die Aktuelle appeared on West German newsstands, Scotland Yard had been called in to investigate, and Simon Regan was promising his full cooperation. Said the Prince's solicitor, Matthew Farrer: "We are quite satisfied that the telephone conversations of which this purports to be a transcript did not take place." That afternoon, British Secretary of Trade John Biffen banned the import of the offending issue. By Friday night, Charles and Diana had seen all of Die Aktuelle's transcripts. Their verdict: all were fake...