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After 21 years, the Lockerbie saga just won't go away. The most recent media coverage has revolved around the release of the convicted al-Megrahi and his return to Libya. His release and the hero's welcome he received provoked international outrage, most vocally from the U.S. Was it really a straightforward case of the Scottish Justice Minster experiencing a tug on his heart strings after meeting al-Megrahi, terminally ill with cancer?
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Rubber-stamping General McChrystal's request for more troops does not prove the President's commitment to national defense any more than supplying unlimited
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If police data show racial disparities, it's not because of racial profiling, according to Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather MacDonald. "It's not police-driven," she said. "The fact is this is victim-driven." The type of policing that Prof. Ronald Sullivan advocates includes stops based on a particularized suspicion. "If you police well based on individual suspicion, you do better policing," he said.
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A Federalist Society panel agreed that the Sotomayor confirmation process represented a victory for conservative legal principles and left many progressives frustrated. Ed Whelan noted that Justice Sotomayor did not present a strong argument for any sort of progressive judicial philosophy during her entire hearing, and claimed that the "era of Republican disarmament" in Supreme Court nomination fights was "over".
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Combined with the acceleration of the interview process affected by the introduction of the Early Interview Program, the dearth of available jobs has put HLS students in an unexpected position of entering this October uncertain of their job prospects. With as much as 20% fewer interviews conducted on campus and call-back results that are rumored to have been unsatisfying, many are being forced to construct back-up plans on the fly.
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One year and trillions of dollars of government intervention after the financial crisis, experts on financial regulation at Harvard Law School assembled to assess the its causes and effects and to provide insight into what reforms are needed to effectively regulate financial institutions.
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Celebrated actor Tom Cruise appeared on the HLS campus Monday, October 5th, along with renowned attorney to the stars Bertram Fields '52, who spoke to the Entertainment Law class of Prof. Bruce Hay '88. The visit was kept largely under wraps, but upon Cruise's arrival a flurry of text messages announced his presence to curious star-seekers, who came to meet the actor in person.
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Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger LL.M. '70's 2007 appointment as Brazil's "Minister for Strategic Affairs" – a position that has been deemed "Minister of Ideas" – piqued curiosity around the globe. Now, nearing the expiration of his paid leave – which, he said, Harvard had refused to extend – Unger has returned to his teaching post. His former position will not be disbanded – one of his students, who is still earning an S.J.D. at Harvard, has provisionally replaced him.
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A fringe political movement known as the "birthers" continue to claim President Barack Obama '91 was ineligible for the presidency because he was actually born outside the U.S. Last week, a federal judge dismissed the complaint of a soldier who argued for conscientious objection to service in Iraq due to her opinion of Obama's fitness for the presidency.
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Too often, as is the case in the recent debate over health care, people involved in the rhetoric of political argument overlook the value of analytical thinking. In our arguments, we neglect to remember that not every Democrat is a communist, and we fail to concede that not very many Republicans are highly paid insurance executives and/or Satanists.
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After a year spent earning an LLM at the University of Cambridge, during which she wrote our series "Cambridge2Cambridge", JESSICA CORSI has returned Stateside - and was shocked by the culture awaiting her upon return. // My first week back in the US, I stumbled upon what at first struck me as an unbelievable scene in Central Square.
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The degeneration of public discourse seems to have accelerated since President Barack Obama '91 defeated John McCain and Sarah Palin, and the present debate over health care reform has brought us to a new pinnacle of obscurantism and misinformation. Perhaps the greatest mistake committed by President Obama so far has been his underestimation of the extent to which the popular consciousness is moved by the mass media's propagation of the inflammatory rhetoric of anti-government demogogues.