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Paul Stevens Oral History
No full textPaul Stevens was a faculty member at the American University in Cairo’s English Language Institute from 1983 to 2010, serving as its Director multiple times. He describes his career and that of his wife Virginia “Gini” Stevens (also a faculty member in ELI) before coming to AUC. Paul Stevens outlines how the ELI’s structure and personnel developed over the years, and how its programs and units (like the Intensive English Program and English 100) functioned. Other aspects covered include testing and placement, facilities (comparing those downtown Tahrir Campus with those at the new campus), incoming students’ language skills and background (including LEAD scholarship recipients), and attempts to pressure faculty. He also discusses AUC’s Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Master’s program that he directed while heading ELI. Faculty issues like balancing staffing and enrollment, disparity in compensation between Egyptians and foreign hires, and the lesser input and position security for instructor-level faculty, are also addressed. Stevens sketches out the contributions of leading figures in the ELI and various AUC administrators. He also gives an account of his experience of the 1986 conscripts’ riots in Cairo
Q&A: Justice John Paul Stevens
No full textFormer U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens visits IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, (October 3, 2012): Justice Stevens answered questions submitted by the audience after his remarks.
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Introduction: Justice John Paul Stevens
No full textPrior to a lecture by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on October 3, 2012, IIT Chicago-Kent Professors Carolyn Shapiro, Steven Heyman and Nancy Marder introduce, and highlight Stevens\u27 distinguished history with the U.S. Supreme Court from his first, and only, argument in front of the court in 1962 to a key decision in Payne v. Tennessee regarding the eighth Amendment.
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Paul S. Stevens, the son of architect John Calvin Stevens II, describes the home
No full textPaul S. Stevens, the son of architect John Calvin Stevens II, describes the homes of several Maine architects, including his childhood home in Cape Elizabeth; the John Calvin Stevens family home in Portland; his grandfather John Howard Stevens\u27s home on Bowdoin Street in Portland; a Francis Fassett-designed home on Chebeague Island, once owned by Antoine Dorticos; architect Phil Kaplan\u27s house in Falmouth; Jim Sterling\u27s house in Freeport; Carol Wilson\u27s House One; and Scott Simons\u27s renovation of an 1896 summer cottage on Little John Island
The Ninth Vote in the Stop the Beach Case: Justice John Paul Stevens
No full textCo-sponsored with the Jack Miller Center, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens spent an afternoon discussing The Ninth Vote in the Stop the Beach Case on October 3, 2012.
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Walter F. Mondale, Paul Sarbanes, and Ted Stevens to Senator James O. Eastland, 10 October 1978
Get PDFTyped letter signed dated 10 October 1978 from Mondale, Paul Sarbanes, and Ted Stevens to Eastland, re: Combined Federal Campaign for the needy.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_h/1018/thumbnail.jp
The reduction of metaphysics and the play of violence in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
No full textPhDThe thesis demonstrates how Wallace Stevens' poetry utilises pre-Socratic philosophy in overcoming post-Kantian dislocation from the 'thing-in-itself'. I initially consider Stevens’ poetry in terms of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ontological conception of the 'play' of art, an interactive existence overlooked by Kant. Through the ‘play’ of Stevens’ poems the reading audience are implicated in their reduction to being. The origin of this conception leads Gadamer back to Parmenides who Stevens had read. I argue that Stevens’ poetry ‘plays’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of how the language and form of Stevens’ poems attempt to reduce mind and world to concepts that parallel Parmenides’ poetic sense of being, and Heraclitus’ notion of becoming, the thesis uncovers the ground in which Stevens attempts a reconnection with the ‘thing-in-itself’. It is through the experience of reconnecting to an ontological centre, which his poetry presents as the human project, that Stevens’ poetry also presents itself as a means of replacing religion.From here we turn to Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida for an exposition of how such a reduction reduces the ‘Other’ to ‘otherness’ and their worry that this reduction legitimates violence within the thought of Martin Heidegger and Parmenides. From this I make a case for how such reductions are connected to what I refer to as 'the play of violence' in Stevens' poetry, and to refer this violence back to the mythology Stevens' poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger and Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a ‘reduction of metaphysics’
Jim Stevens Folder
No full text1 page of family history documents containing and related to Jim Stevens; Intermountain Institute in Weiser; Paul Bunyan stories - including: Idaho Statesman, Idaho Yesterday
John Paul Stevens and Equally Impartial Government
Get PDFThis article is the second publication arising out of the author\u27s ongoing research respecting Justice John Paul Stevens. It is one of several published by former law clerks and other legal experts in the UC Davis Law Review symposium edition, Volume 43, No. 3, February 2010, The Honorable John Paul Stevens.
The article posits that Justice Stevens\u27s embrace of race-conscious measures to ensure continued diversity stands in tension with his early rejections of affirmative action programs. The contrast suggests a linear movement toward a progressive interpretation of the Constitution’s equality guarantee; however, examination of Stevens\u27s writings in biographical context reveal a more complex story. As a law clerk Stevens had urged that Justices declare segregation itself unconstitutional in 1948, six years before the Court took that step. The state’s refusal to admit a qualified applicant to law school solely on account of her race represented an individualized wrong, one that bore resonance with the Depression-era experiences of Stevens\u27s own family. Stevens would come to describe unequal treatment as a breach of the sovereign\u27s duty to govern impartially. But the Justice did not view race-based means to remedy prior discrimination in the same light. As the article demonstrates, it was only after he shifted attention away from the injustices of the past and toward expectations of a just future that Stevens adjudged affirmative action as a permissible means toward an equally impartial government
Justice John Paul Stevens, Originalist
Get PDFCommentators, including the author of a recent book on the Supreme Court, often attempt to give each Justice a methodological label, such as “practitioner of judicial restraint,” “legal realist,” “pragmatist,” or “originalist.” This Essay first demonstrates that none of the first three labels applies without fail to Justice John Paul Stevens; consequently, it explores the extent to which Justice Stevens’s jurisprudence paid heed to the fourth method, “originalism.” It looks in particular at Justice Stevens’s opinions in recent cases involving firearms, national security, and capital punishment. Somewhat at odds with conventional wisdom, the Essay reveals Justice Stevens as a kind of originalist—as a Justice duty-bound to identify and enforce principles, such as liberty and fairness, that the Framers embedded in the Constitution. To do so, Justice Stevens has practiced a fifth methodology, one that synthesizes many sources and interpretive techniques in an effort to reach a decision that serves a contemporary understanding of justice
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