Sunday, January 25, 2009

New Yorker: MS. KENNEDY REGRETS

MS. KENNEDY REGRETS

She’s unable to be in the Senate today.

by Larissa MacFarquhar
[ This article has some slant, which wavers elegantly. The whole is well worth reading. ]

[After getting a law degree, she ] interned for a summer at her mother’s lawyer’s firm, but then decided she didn’t want to practice.

 [....]

At law school, she and Ellen Alderman decided [to] write a book together [....] They travelled around the country, interviewing people who had been involved in cases in which the principles of the Bill of Rights had been tested. The result, “In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action,” was more pedagogical than analytical[....]  Alderman and Kennedy decided to write a similar book, “The Right to Privacy,” about privacy law. [....]


For the next six or seven years [....] basically she was a stay-at-home mother.
[....]
 (She declined to be interviewed for this article.) 


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