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Scrapbook LAURENCE TRIBE'S TANTRUM At last week's impeachment hearings, liberal constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe of Harvard was one of the star witnesses called by the Democratic members...
...If Laurence Tribe hasn't shown himself to be perfectly qualified to be the next Democratic nominee to the Supreme Court, The Scrap-BOOK doesn't know who is...
...Toiv didn't stop there...
...Initiative 200 was modeled on California's Prop...
...He told the Washington Post's "Reliable Source" column, "It's probably more accurate to say that [Faircloth's] hand was in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...HELP WANTED THE WEEKLY STANDARD has a full-time position available for an entry-level staff assistant...
...Or fax to 202-293-4901...
...Let me thank you in advance for whatever you can do about this little annoyance, and let me also apologize if you think I am being petty in a setting where truly important things, and not mere titles, are at stake...
...Geez...
...Please send your resume to: Personnel Dept., The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 505, Washington, D.C...
...A Seattle Times poll showed that voters understood the issue, and two-thirds of them knew from the beginning of the campaign how they would vote...
...8, the president's chocolate Labrador retriever Buddy sent Marine Corps helicopter pilot John "Ken" Faircloth to the infirmary for a couple of stitches in his hand...
...209 veteran Ward Connerly, led the fight to pass the Washington initiative...
...Ramsey: I appreciate the fact that the witness list finally contains a correct spelling of my name, but it continues to disturb me that the witnesses being called by the majority are accorded the respect of being listed with their professional titles whereas those of us being called at the suggestion of the minority are listed with nothing more than our institutional affiliations...
...But he wasn't treated as a star witness...
...200" campaign was backed by a Who's Who of corporate sponsors—Microsoft, Boeing, Eddie Bauer, Nordstrom, and Starbucks...
...Gary Locke did television advertisements supporting preferences and opposing the ballot measure...
...In the words of presidential flack Barry Toiv, which deserve to be immortalized: "It was not a bite...
...He was playing ball with Buddy...
...In any event, since the White House presumably procured Buddy for some incremental PR benefit with dog-owners in the first place, it's condign punishment that they now have to spin his misdeeds...
...But this was no ordinary dog-man encounter, at least not after the White House's expert flacks got done massaging the story...
...His hand scraped a tooth and he had a couple of stitches and he's fine...
...I hold the only chair in constitutional law at that institution...
...It seems to me quite unfair, and in a sense misleading, for the press and the public to be told, for instance, that my colleague Richard Parker is a Professor of Law at Harvard and to know only that I have some unspecified link to that same institution—an institution at which it is I, and not Richard, who hold the chair in constitutional law...
...His hand scraped a tooth...
...This is perhaps only a matter of principle since most of us are more or less familiar to the press if not to the public, but matters of principle should count for something in this context, and my several efforts to raise this matter through my assistant Jeff Jamison have produced neither a correction of the list through inclusion of the appropriate titles nor an explanation of why this request cannot be honored while it remains timely...
...Opponents of the initiative argued that the language of the proposition would confuse voters, but the text could not have been more straightforward: "The state shall not discriminate against—or grant preferential treatment to—any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting...
...When a similar initiative was narrowly defeated in Houston last year, the news was sitting pretty on Page One, two days after the election...
...After a short round-up in its election section, the N^'w York Times waited nearly a week to discuss the news in its pages—and when a story finally did appear, it was buried on page 25...
...Wow...
...209 and passed with 58 percent of the vote, despite a heavily funded and hyperactive opposition...
...It's not like a nip from the presidential pooch is an impeachable offense...
...Coverage of the unlikely uphill triumph of the civil-rights initiative—or the paucity thereof—has been interesting, to say the least...
...or to know that Gary McDowell, to pick just one other example, is Director of the Institute of U.S...
...Voters saw through the rhetoric, and they knew what they were voting for...
...At least not by his lights...
...In the end, I-200 opponents outspent supporters by a margin of at least 3 to 1. Such margins would usually spell death for any initiative...
...Not this time...
...It's priceless: Dear Mr...
...And he let the committee's Democratic staffers hear about it, in an e-mail that was subsequently leaked to the Washington Post's Al Kamen...
...This is a clerical position working with the editorial staff...
...Buddy was probably just bored from being trotted across the White House lawn for the cameras whenever the president boards his helicopter to Camp David...
...Other national media have also proved remarkably reticent about this striking result...
...No calls, please...
...The "No...
...Scrapbook LAURENCE TRIBE'S TANTRUM At last week's impeachment hearings, liberal constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe of Harvard was one of the star witnesses called by the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee...
...The Seattle Times doled out free advertising space...
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...Apparently he went for the ball with his hand at the same time Buddy went for it with his mouth...
...On Sunday, Nov...
...As you may know, I'm the Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard University Law School...
...Studies at the University of London—whatever it is that the institute does—while being left to guess what sort of post Cass Sunstein holds at Chicago or Susan Bloch holds at Georgetown, and to speculate whether Father Drinan is Georgetown University's chaplain or holds some other, more relevant, position...
...The American Civil Rights Institute, founded by California businessman and Prop...
...ROLLING BACK PREFERENCES You wouldn't know it from the media, but on Election Day following the lead two years ago of California, voters in Washington approved the elimination of race and sex preferences by their state government...
...A DOG DOESN'T BTTE MAN STORY Is there anything the Clinton White House won't spin...
...A matter of principle...
...This is an important victory for people who want to go against the establishment," says ACRI's Jennifer Nelson...
Vol. 4 • November 1998 • No. 11
