Baird facts. (Zoe Baird) (Editorial)

Nation, The, February, 1993 by Shapiro, Bruce

If any Judiciary Committee members are trawling for evidence of conflict of interest in the appointment of Zoe Baird as Attorney General, they won't have to fish through the confidential files of her former employers, G.E. and Aetna: They need look no further than the street where she lives. Baird is an active member of a New Haven association currently being sued by the Justice Department for housing discrimination.

Baird and her husband, Yale law professor Paul Gewirtz, live in a $500,000 house in New Haven's most aristocratic enclave, Prospect Hill. Last spring an assortment of Baird's distinguished and generally liberal neighbors--among them a state judge, a Yale museum director and a former mayoral candidate--went into a frenzy when Marjorie Eichler, a...

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