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THE SUMMER 2004 ISSUE OF STANFORD LAWYER

THE SUMMER 2004 ISSUE OF STANFORD LAWYER magazine is now on newsstands. It also can be viewed online at http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/lawyer/issues.html.

YOSH!

Josh Bolten, '80, the man President Bush nicknamed "Yosh," is the ultimate Washington insider. As director of the Office of Management and Budget, he wields enormous influence over almost every domestic program and policy that emanates from the White House. But the motorcycle-riding, pickup-driving, let's-go-bowling friend of Bo Derek is also as down home as they come.

RUMSFELD V. PADILLA (& JENNY)

Stanford Law Assistant Professor Jenny Martinez landed smack in the middle of one of the biggest cases to come before the Supreme Court in years ­ the feds' controversial incarceration of "dirty bomber" suspect Jose Padilla.

SPRINTING ALL THE WAY

Kathleen M. Sullivan is ending her tenure as dean of the Law School this summer the same way she started ­ going flat out. Couple that drive with her intellectual prowess and charisma, and it's easy to understand how Sullivan was able to accomplish so much for the Law School in only five years.

SUMMER READING

Law School faculty offer their picks of the best books to read this summer. Don't worry ­ there's not a law book among them.

CRITICS OF GAY MARRIAGE: "YOU'RE OUT!"

Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan argues that baseball and same-sex marriage have a lot more in common than one might think.