http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/03/obama200803
One of the clearest-eyed grandees of the Chicago establishment, Newton Minow has long seen something special in Obama. Minow played key roles in the two presidential campaigns of Adlai E. Stevenson, then went on to become John F. Kennedy’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, famously pronouncing television programming “a vast wasteland” in 1961, a few months before Obama was born. At 81, sitting in his law office at Sidley Austin, in the Loop, above a stretch of street christened Honorary Newton N. Minow Way, Minow is talking about the young man his daughter Martha, a professor at Harvard Law School, recommended for a summer associate’s job two decades ago. At Minow’s firm Obama fell in love with a young lawyer, Michelle Robinson, who would become his wife.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/chicago-law/newton-minow/
Thursday, June 11, 2009
New dean at Harvard Law
Harvard Law School named a new dean Thursday, and she has a Chicago connection. She’s the daughter of Newton Minow, the former chair of the Federal Communications Commission, who serves as senior counsel at Sidley Austin.
Martha Minow will become dean on July 1, replacing Elena Kagan, who became U.S. solicitor general earlier this year.
http://stephen-diamond.com/?p=393
Sidley had been long time outside counsel to Commonwealth Edison. The senior Sidley partner who was Comm Ed’s key outside counsel, Howard Trienens, was a member of the board of trustees of Northwestern alongside Tom Ayers (and Sidley partner Newton Minow, too). It turns out, Bernardine Dohrn worked at Sidley also. She was hired there in the late 80s, because of the intervention of her father-in-law Tom Ayers, even though she was (and is) not a member of any state bar.
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Without debate, Harvard Club honors Newton Minow
Chicago Sun-Times - Sunday, January 13, 1991
Author: Mary Cameron Frey
To hear Lawrence Howe tell it, his job as chairman of the 1991 Awards Committee of the Harvard Club of Chicago was a snap.
Annually, the group honors someone who has improved the quality of life in an area outside his or her own profession.
“Newton Minow fits our criteria like a glove,” said Howe. “Besides being a senior partner at Sidley & Austin , he’s a trustee of both Northwestern and Notre Dame universities and is internationally known for his work in bringing presidential debates to television in the ‘70s and ‘80s.”
Although he didn’t graduate from Harvard, Minow is a member of the visiting committee of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he taught there in 1987 and his daughter is on the Harvard law school faculty.
Dinner chair Dr. Richard Burnstine announced that Minow’s dear friend, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of Notre Dame, will be the speaker at the Feb. 23 dinner at the Drake.
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http://clubs.harvard.edu/olc/pub/HAA/university/home.jsp?shortname=hcchicago
Welcome to The Harvard Club of Chicago’s Web Site.
The Harvard Club of Chicago (HCC) is the oldest, continuously operating Harvard Club in the world, having been founded in 1857.
It is one of the largest urban clubs with a membership of over 1,300 alumni/ae out of a universe of over 7,000 in the greater Chicago area.
The Harvard Club of Chicago is a very active club with two to four member programs each month. In addition, the club has an energetic schools committee for interviewing prospective high school seniors, an Adopt-A-School program with the Walter Payton College Prep public high school in Chicago, a Decade program for recent college graduates, and a Radcliffe Club organizing programs of special interest to women alumnae. The club currently contributes $30,000 to college scholarships and over $10,000 to community service fellowships and activities each year.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2348280/posts
The Chicago Ouroboros: Obama, Ayers, Oughton, Dohrn, Minow, Taibbi, Koch, and DARK POOL TRADING
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