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Last week Governor John Sununu stepped in. Two additional fire investigators and six police investigators are patrolling the community. The next day, in what looked like a taunt, the arsonist struck again, igniting a vacant cabin...
...runs a satirical ad for a law-school deanship, concocted by New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, who, like many another legal scholar, had no interest in the recently vacant dean's spot at his university. Over the past four years, 125 of the 174 law schools accredited by the American Bar Association, including Chicago, Georgetown and Harvard, have had to search for new deans. Once the capstone of a legal career, the post is now a revolving door, says James P. White, consultant on legal education to the A.B.A. "Twenty years ago, it was not uncommon...
Olmos, who grew up with an extended family in a small house on Cheesbrough's Lane, still has fond memories of life in the barrio. During a visit to his old neighborhood, he pauses before a vacant lot bordered by a garbage dumper and two dilapidated cars. "Coming back really tore me up," he says. He would like to turn his great grandparents' old wood-frame house into a museum "not out of ego, but to show kids that starting from here, they can go anywhere they want." Yet it took him a while to find his own path. When...
Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court was resoundingly rejected last year in large part because the Senate feared Bork would push the Justices into overturning landmark decisions on civil rights. All the more reason for the uproar last April, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, who filled the vacant seat, joined a 5-to-4 court majority inviting reargument of a 1976 decision that allowed citizens to sue private institutions for damages resulting from racial discrimination...
...Harvard has not yet filled two vacant positions in her department and several faculty members took leaves of absence this year, Herron was expected to make up for the lack of courses in addition to fulfilling her heavy administrative duties...