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It is no secret that President Barack Obama '91's administration is supposed to contain some of the country's "best and brightest" individuals - not a few of whom are Harvard graduates. The New York Times' David Brooks hailed the incoming administration as a "valedictocracy" of Ivy alumni. Until now, however, little quantitative data has been produced analyzing the backgrounds of the administration's appointments.
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On Thursday, January 8, then President-elect Barack Obama '91 tapped Professor Cass R. Sunstein '78 to serve as head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a subset of the Office of Management and Budget. It is a position the media has deemed "regulatory czar".
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Nesson RIAA Trial Streaming to be Appealed to First Circuit Judge Nancy Gertner of the Federal District Court for the District of Mass. granted a stay to the Recording Industry Association of America for the First Circuit Court of Appeals to review a decision to allow Prof.
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On January 13, HLS Dean of Admissions Toby Stock '01 announced to the law school community that he will be departing to accept a position at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy research center in Washington, D.C. Stock will become the Managing Director for Development at the institute and will coordinate all its major fund-raising activities.
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Lawrence Lessig, renowned scholar of internet law and professor at Stanford Law School, will rejoin the Harvard faculty in summer 2009, taking up a joint appointment as a professor at Harvard Law School and as director of Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
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Last month, then President-elect Barack Obama '91 nominated Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to head the Department of Homeland Security - despite the fact that she has actively opposed many measures to secure our borders, and has consistently advocated both amnesty for illegal immigrants and guest worker visas.
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"How did Harvard Law School behave in the McCarthy witch hunts? With sickening cowardice," accuses the latest edition of CounterPunch, a leftist political newsletter. The publication included a piece by Jonathan Lubell '54 recounting his experiences at the school during the anti-communist inquisition spearheaded by Senator Eugene McCarthy in the 1950s.
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Students, faculty, and staff gathered in Harkness Commons South on Tuesday, January 20th, where the Dean of Students' office threw a party to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama '91 as President of the United States. Posters, cut outs, and American flags decked Hark South, where onlookers clustered to watch the inaugural festivities on two screens.
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After serving fifteen years in prison for nine murders he did not commit, 34-year-old Jonathan Andrew Doody may soon be a free man. That's partly thanks to Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz, who represented Doody before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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EVERY PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION year, Presidents issue dozens of pardons, unilaterally sparing people convicted of federal crimes by juries across the country. The pardon power, enumerated in Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, is derived from the English Prerogative of Kings.
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George W. Bush entered office eight years ago as an unpopular President who many perceived as having stolen the electoral victory. During his tenure, the nation experienced the worst terrorist attack in its history, embarked on its most costly military campaign since Vietnam, suffered its worst natural disaster in a century, witnessed the highest oil prices ever, and was left spiraling into the deepest economic recession since the Great Depression.
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Over the coming weeks, regular readers of the Record will to start to notice some dramatic changes to our publishing schedule. Starting February 5th, the print edition of the Record will only be published biweekly. Print subscribers should not see a reduction in the number of biweekly mailings they receive, only a thicker single newspaper to replace the previous mailing of the previous two.