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One of the most time-honored traditions of historians is the exaggeration of weather conditions for dramatic effect. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 is often described as having been conducted in the sweltering heat of a Philadelphia summer, when in fact the summer of 1787 was unseasonably cool.
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Former HLS professor Anne-Marie Slaughter '85, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, has been selected for a top State Department post in the Obama administration. Slaughter, who taught at the law school from 1988-89 and from 1994 until 2002, also has a doctorate in international relations from Oxford.
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In yet another sign of Harvard Law School's eminent superiority, the Black Law Students Association's Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial team took home first-place honors at the Black Law Students Association's Northeast Regional Conference. The team will move on to the National Conference in Irvine, California on March 18, where it hopes to "take the national championship by storm.
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Harvard University President Drew Faust sent an e-mail to Harvard affiliates February 18 outlining the difficulties facing the university. Faust reaffirmed Harvard's commitment to establishing the greatest academic community in the world and to expanding human knowledge through rigorous and creative scholarship, but warned that a delicate balance of short- long-term planning would be necessary for Harvard to maintain its elite status.
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On Thursday, February 5, the Army Court of Criminal Appeals (ACCA) heard oral arguments in a case involving an appellant convicted of distributing 81 kilograms of cocaine, laundering almost a quarter-million dollars, and illegally transporting firearms while serving as part of the United States' counter-narcotics effort in Colombia.
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As one former Harvard Law Review chief took the reigns of the country last month, the Review was busy electing Joanna Huey '10 as its 123rd president. The Record had a few questions for Huey, a 2006 graduate of Harvard College, about her ascension to the prestigious chair and what role student-edited journals play in legal scholarship.
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Artur Davis '93, the 41-year-old Alabama Democratic congressman, is set to take aim at his state's governorship in 2010. If successful, Davis, who worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center and as an assistant U.S. attorney before entering politics, would be Alabama's first black governor (and only the fifth black governor in the U.
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Last week, President Barack Obama '91 called the payment of over $18 billion in bonuses to Wall Street executives last year "shameful," and his response this week was to announce a salary cap of $500,000 in 2009 for all firms that are receiving Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bail-out funds.
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Opposition has arisen to President Barack Obama '91's appointment of Professor Cass Sunstein '78 as regulatory czar. A coalition of left-wing interests has labeled the professor an inappropriate choice, based on a number of positions the longtime academic has taken in his scholarship.
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Claudio Simpkins '09 has been a rising star, both at home, in New York City, at Harvard Law School, and in the ranks of the Republican Party. The 3L has appeared as a talking head on cable news programs and became a well-known face in New York when his photo was used in subway ads for his alma mater, the City University of New York, which advertised his admission to HLS.
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When President Barack Obama '91 was at Harvard Law School, Professor Laurence Tribe '66 was his mentor. Declaring him his best student (a term he only ever also used to describe former Stanford Law Dean Kathleen Sullivan '81), Tribe was one of the closest, if not the closest professor to the budding Barack.
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Yeh Ling-Ling's most recent attack on immigrants in the pages of the Record isn't just a rehash of the same assertions and cultural scapegoating that immigrant rights advocates are used to. It's a rehash of her own past Record articles, and the argument isn't getting any better, even if she left out some of the most bizarre charges this time.