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Scrapbook A-Mentoring We Will Go Eager as we always are to lend encouragement and friendly, practical advice to young people just beginning their careers in professional journalism, The Scrapbook...
...Striking...
...and September 20, 2001...
...Rehnquist not only benefited in his class ranking from this discrimination...
...It featured the affecting story of one Yakov Kronrod, a straight-A, prizewinning graduate student who nevertheless lost his federal loans and had to quit school after being "caught" with drugs and convicted of "possessing and selling" the stuff—even though he "denied the distribution charge...
...magistrate Deborah Robinson to fine Berger $10,000 and take away his security clearance for three years...
...The drug charges were all subsequent offenses, which means they are offenses Mr...
...When he was nominated to be an associate justice in 1971, I learned from several sources who had known him as a student that he had outraged Jewish classmates by goose-stepping and heil-Hitlering with brown-shirted friends in front of a dormitory that housed the school's few Jewish students...
...Scrapbook A-Mentoring We Will Go Eager as we always are to lend encouragement and friendly, practical advice to young people just beginning their careers in professional journalism, The Scrapbook is pleased this week to congratulate Miss Sanhita Sen—who probably isn't even 21 years old yet, but who's nevertheless just scored a series of summertime bylines in the Chicago Tribune and, most recently, in the Washington Post, which ran a long, freelance "special" by Sen in its August 30 hard-news A Section...
...At sentencing last Thursday, she upped the fine to $50,000, gave Berger two years' probation, and ordered him to perform 100 hours of community service...
...This is surprising, since Fukuyama himself once urged just such a course of action, cosigning letters circulated by the Project for the New American Century calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime, by force if necessary, on no less than three occasions: January 26, 1998...
...Justice Department prosecutors accepted Berger's plea...
...This sentence—not the milquetoast Justice Department recommendation—"suffi-ciently reflect[s] the seriousness of the offense," Robinson said...
...I shall greatly miss him...
...Underscoring the apparent inequities of the case, Sen's article went on to describe, by contrast, a "recent Princeton University graduate" who'd twice been caught with marijuana during college but "faced only probation as a result," along with "another recent Princeton graduate" who'd "never faced serious consequences" of any kind despite being "caught with drugs" that he'd been selling on campus "to more than a dozen customers a week, netting $500 to $1,000...
...My mother was wrong...
...He understood the Court and its history...
...Alan Dershowitz, blogging on "The Huffmgton Post," September 4 The Chief Justice was a brave, intelligent man deeply committed to maintaining the rule of law and preserving an independent judiciary...
...Fukuyama, however, neither used the word un-American nor wrote anything that could be appropriately summarized that way...
...Holy cow...
...Mama Tried...
...We're impressed...
...Today Stanford is a great law school with a diverse student body, but in the late 1940s and early 1950s, it discriminated against Jews and other minorities, both in the admission of students and in the selection of faculty...
...Emphasis added.] (2) Next time out Sen will also want to take care that she hasn't "buried the lede," as we say in the biz, and as seems to have been the case here...
...But far more surprising was the Times's astonishing misrepresentation of Fukuyama's views...
...he was also part of that bigotry...
...May 29, 1998...
...But Robinson disagreed...
...Dershowitz's little boy, Alan, would grow up with a severe—and apparently irreversible— personality disorder: My mother always told me that when a person dies, one should not say anything bad about him...
...We love you, William Hubbs Rehnquist...
...If we understand her correctly, Sen appears to be reporting that you can get caught running a multi-thousand-dollar drug-dealing operation out of your dorm room at Princeton and even that isn't enough to get you expelled from the place...
...You might say that its strategy on editing is unprofessional...
...And although the point of this item is about the Times, it's worth saying up front that this wasn't THE SCRAP-BOOK'S favorite effort by Fukuyama...
...Berger had been tasked by his old boss to review Clinton administration counterterrorism documents in preparation for testimony before the 9/11 Commission...
...Justice Stephen B'reyer himself, in a formal statement released the same day I think the Chief bet he could live out another term despite his illness...
...Who cares, under the circumstances...
...Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, eulogizing her Stanford classmate September 7 The New York Times Strikes Again On August 31, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Francis Fukuyama...
...The value of the drugs was almost $8,000, according to an estimate by police...
...He lifted five of the documents from the Archives, took a pair of scissors to three of those, and then lied about the whole thing...
...He administered the Court, as he did the judicial system, effectively and with great fairness...
...Couple things, though: (1) Next time out Sen will probably want to run a quick Nexis check on any fellow like Yakov Kronrod, who may have "denied the distribution charge" to her, but seems to have pleaded guilty to it before a judge, and for reasons that should become abundantly clear from the Worcester Telegram & Gazette's October 29, 2002, account of his arrest: Police Chief Loring Barrett Jr...
...For the Times graced his op-ed with an incendiary "pull quote"—a quotation in larger type set off in a box in the middle of his article—that read in its entirety: "President Bush's strategy on Iraq is un-American...
...And now for some of that friendly, practical advice we mentioned...
...but in the end, the problem proved hopeless: Tragically, Mrs...
...The Times has yet to apologize to Fukuyama or to its readers...
...said the officer found several pounds of marijuana, cocaine, mushrooms, Via-codin and Ecstasy . . . in the car...
...The closest he came was in arguing that "neither American political culture nor any underlying domestic pressures or constraints have determined the key decisions in American foreign policy since Sept...
...Rehnquist bragged about being first in his class at Stanford Law School...
...Along with the drugs, police found several hundred dollars in cash....After the search of the car, driver Yakov Kronrod, 21, of 8 Claremont St., Worcester, was charged with speeding, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of Ecstasy with intent to distribute and two counts of possession of a class E substance (Viacodin) with intent to distribute...
...He lost that bet, as did all of us, but he won all the prizes for a life well-lived...
...Fine By Us On April 1, you may recall, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. Berger pleaded guilty to stealing classified documents from the National Archives on two occasions in 2003...
...Federal student aid regulations...
...Sen's Post story ("Law Targets Student Aid for Drug Crimes...
...Kron-rod has been charged with in the past...
...They asked D.C...
...Provision Rescinding Financial Packages Criticized for Affecting Only Non-Affluent") was about Clinton-era legislation that limits the eligibility of certain drug offenders for federal student grants and loans...
...I much admired his personal and legal strength...
...Let's begin at the beginning...
...Fukuyama criticizes the Bush administration for unwisely choosing to go to war in Iraq...
...He did that—and more...
...Justice Stephen Breyer recalled an earlier period of Stanford's history: "When my father was at Stanford, he could not join any of the social organizations because he was Jewish, and those organizations, at that time, did not accept Jews...
...He never allowed disagreements about the law to become personal and the Court followed his example...
...So far, so good...
Vol. 11 • September 2005 • No. 1
