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The Rehabilitation of Eliot Spitzer

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Prostitution, Sunny Hostin, Michael Garcia, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Katie Zezima, Wall Street, Eliot Spitzer Prostitution, Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School, Dylan Ratigan, Eliot Spitzer, Chris Matthews, Human Trafficking, New York News
Marcia G. Yerman

As Chris Matthews repeatedly called him "governor," I wondered what the exact protocol was for retaining your title even after you have resigned in disgrace.

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Lehman, Bear Stearns Execs Cashed In As Their Firms Failed: Study

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Lehman Brothers, Lucian-Bebchuck, Richard Fuld, Harvard Law School, Bear Stearns, Dick Fuld, Jimmy Cayne, Financial Crisis, James Cayne, Business News

If you thought that the executives at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns paid dearly in when their firms famously imploded last year, think again. A ne...

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Obama Should Nominate Feingold Next to Supreme Court

Matthew Rothschild | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Feingold Obama, Russ Feingold, Us Constitution, Rhodes Scholar, Sotomayor Confirmation, Rick Warren, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Senator Feingold, Harvard Law School, Mccain-Feingold, Politics News
Matthew Rothschild

Obama would do himself proud, and his progressive base proud, and the Constitution proud, by nominating Russ Feingold to fill the next vacancy on the Supreme Court.

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Obama's Law Professor Says DOMA Unconstitutional

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unconstitutional, Marriage, Harvard University, Laurence Tribe, Equal Rights, Harvard Law School, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Department of Justice, Glad, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, Constitution, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Defense of Marriage Act, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

A campaign is underway to encourage the Department of Justice to refuse to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.

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Why the Obamas are Political Black Swans

Megan Harris | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ornithologist, Narcisco Rodriguez, America's Competitiveness, Loree Rodkin, J. Crew, Working Mothers, Nassim Taleb, Obama Administration, Black Swan, Carla Bruni, Isabel Toledo, Jason Wu, Pottery Barn, 44th President, Tracy Feith, American Designers, Dr. Martin Luther King, Michelle and Barack Obama, Princeton University, Harvard Law School, Ivey League, Joe Lieberman, Barack Hussein Obama, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, First Family, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News
Megan Harris

The First Family have quickly emerged as positive role models for a generation that seemed adrift. They are poised to systematically realign how Americans view themselves and country.

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The Biggest Loser

Gregory Allen Howard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Affirmative Action and African Americans, Supreme Court, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Obama Inauguration, Affirmative Action, Obama Clarence Thomas, Jobs, Harvard, Obama Harvard, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Yale, Obama Harvard Law Review, Yale Law School, Inauguration, Harvard Law School, Yale Law, Racism, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, African-Americans, Politics News
Gregory Allen Howard

If a white man with Clarence Thomas's meager background of minor government bureaucrat had been put up for the Supreme Court, there would have been outrage. Except that he was Black.

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Cramer Chokes Up Over Pal Spitzer's Downfall

Posted 08.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Today Show, Harvard Law School, Silda Wall Spitzer, Meredith Vieira, Eliot Spitzer, Jim Cramer, Cheaters, Business News

Wednesday morning, while talking to Meredith Vieira on the Today show, Mad Money's Jim Cramer choked up when he was asked about his old Harvard Law Sc...

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F.C.C. Chairman: Comcast "Packing" No Big Deal

Portfolio | Sam Gustin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Harvard Law School, Comcast, Net Neutrality, Jennifer Khoury, Fcc, FCC Hearing, Network Neutrality, FCC Comcast Hearing, Business News

The Federal Communications Commission acknowledges that Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, paid people to attend last week's public meeting ...

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Comcast Floods FCC Hearing With Paid Placeholders: Critics

Portfolio | Sam Gustin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Harvard Law School, Fcc, Comcast, Jennifer Khoury, Net Neutrality, FCC Hearing, Network Neutrality, FCC Comcast Hearing, Business News

How big are the stakes in the so-called network neutrality debate now raging before Congress and federal regulators? Consider this: One side in the d...

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