Watching Meese and the high cost of legal representation
An opinion argues the Meese nomination is overshadowed by a flawed system allowing a nominee to bill the government for 720000 dollars in attorneys fees. It also cites South Carolina where the attorney general uses private firms for state work, noting 350000 dollar bills and potential further payments. It calls for reform and warns taxpayers are watching.
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Edwin Meese
Senate
Meese
U. S
Justice Department
Congress
South Carolina
Attorney General’s Office
Robert McNair
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
McNair
Washington
U.S
D.C
Howard Metzenbaum
Ed Meese
Sen. Metzenbaum
NEW York Times
Ramsey Clark
Elliott Richardson
Times
George McGovern
Walter Mondale
District of Columbia
Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court
Oxford Votes to Refuse Thatcher Honorary Degree
Oxford faculty rejected an honorary law degree for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by 738 to 319 amid controversy over her government’s cuts to education and research funding. The dispatch notes she would be the first Oxford educated prime minister to be denied such an honor.
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Oxford
Margaret Thatcher
London
Thatcher
Aiken Standard Letter Submissions Guide
The Aiken Standard invites signed letters to the editor with readable legibility preferably typed. Letters must include the writer’s mailing address and anonymous submissions are not considered. Space allows editing and condensation for clarity taste and libel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken Standard
P.O
Aiken
S.C
Who Really Was Robert Kennedy
A critical review of a CBS docudrama on Robert Kennedy argues the film fails to reveal a clear political arc or inner development. The piece contrasts Kennedy with his brother and dismisses the treatment as light and sentimental rather than weighty history.
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Robert Kennedy
New York City
CBS
Sirhan Sirhan
Chicago
Richard Nixon
Charles Evans Hughes
Wendell Willkie
Thomas Dewey
Hubert Humphrey
Bobby
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Schlesinger
Kennedys
Tribune of the People
Jack
John Kennedy
Jfk
Savonarola
Grizzard's Philosophy Of Life Reflections From a High School Student
A local high school student asks Bob Grizzard for his philosophy of life. He reflects on avoiding jail and staying dry, then shares succinct, sometimes humorous truths about life, college, honesty, love, manners, religion, money, travel, sleep, and friendship.
Ethics in Washington echoes Meese probe in heated politics
The Meese ethics inquiry, Metzenbaum’s $250000, and Haynsworth’s failed Supreme Court nomination frame a partisan debate. The piece argues ethics is politics, noting media bias and left right clashes, with comparisons to past cases and calls for accountability.
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William Buckley
Lebanon
Beirut
Islamic Jihad
Mr. Buckley
Benjamin Weir
Jeremy Levin
Lawrence Jenco
Peter Kilburn
Reagan
Hickory Hill
Bernhard Goetz
Grizzard
Billings
Mont
Barrack
McKean
Metzenbaum
Clement Haynsworth
U.S. Supreme Court
Haynsworth
Earl Warren
Fourth Circuit
U.S. Senate
Geraldine Ferraro
Ferraro-Zaccaro
Ronald Reagan
Department of Justice
Groomyko
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