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This week, we are proud to introduce "Cambridge2Cambridge", a recurring column from Jessica Corsi, a student in the joint JD/LLM program with Cambridge University. Corsi's column will focus on the experience of studying law abroad. The first thing I noticed about Cambridge is how relaxed everything is here.
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"Change has come to America," said President-Elect Barack Obama '91 following the concession of his Republican rival John McCain. With victory secured by Obama in the key swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, the major media networks called the result once polls closed in California at 11:00.
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Professor Charles Fried, an advisor to the McCain campaign, has announced that he can no longer support the McCain/Palin ticket, and has asked for his name to be removed from campaign literature. In a letter to the general counsel to the McCain/Palin campaign, he cited McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate as too dangerous "at a time of deep national crisis". Fried also publicly stated that he had voted for Obama via absentee ballot.
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Despite the efforts of Warren Buffett and many others to instill confidence in the U.S. markets, the signs are becoming increasingly clear that the financial crisis is continuing to spread around the world, perpetuating the volatility and lack of confidence that has rocked global markets over the last month.
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Every four years our nation girds itself for life-or-death political combat to determine who will occupy the most powerful office in the world. In the historical context, some of these campaigns have not, in the end, proven all that consequential. (Does anyone remember the great debates of 1996?) Even so, the urgency of this election cycle is anything but contrived.
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This election is about more than simply the proposed policies of Barack Obama '91 and John McCain. Though the Harvard Law School Democrats believe Barack Obama's policies are superior to those of his opponent, we also believe that the most important matters to be decided in this election have little to do with the candidates' stances on issues.
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In five days, Senator Barack Obama '91 could become the the first African-American and the second Harvard Law School graduate (after Rutherford B. Hayes, Class of 1845) to be elected President of the United States. If Obama is elected next Tuesday, it will not be his first historic election.
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FENNO WAS TWELVE deep in the thirty-six person long café line when a lingering 3L sent him over the edge. "A triple soy, nonfat, double-shot latte," the be-sweatshirted senior ordered, nonchalantly. Not only did he have nowhere important to go that day, Fenno thought: as he witnessed the sangfroid specimen hand over an obscene tip, it was clear that the kid had his firm job in the bag, and class was no longer on his calendar.
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Professor Charles Ogletree '78 is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and the founder of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. He has helped Sen. Barack Obama throughout his political career and is a senior advisor to his presidential campaign.
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In her keynote address at the annual conference of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor outlined the continuing need for initiatives like affirmative action that can help heal the inequalities created by racial discrimination, but emphasized that such race-based systems are a bandage, not a cure.
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A report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has found that the United States has engaged in torture at its detention facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantánamo Bay. Farnoosh Hashemian, a research associate at PHR, and Nathaniel Raymond, Senior Communications Strategist with PHR, discussed the findings of their report titled "Broken Laws, Broken Lives," at a panel discussing on Friday, October 17, sponsored by the Human Rights Program.
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The Class of 2010 will be the first and only class in the history of Harvard Law School to have two types of grades on their transcripts. The current 2L class will maintain traditional grades this academic year and transition to the new system in the Fall of 2009.