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The White House, Capitol Hill, and the Federal Reserve have mobilized their full arsenal of intervention strategies to resolve the barriers impeding the free flow of credit in the global financial markets.
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With the election less than a month away, friends and former professors of Barack Obama '91 gathered last Friday for a rally to support his run for the presidency. Among the speakers were Professors Randall Kennedy, Martha Minow, and David Wilkins '80. Professor Kenneth Mack '91, who was in the same 1L section as Obama, also spoke.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's move this week to try and extend his office's term limits may have seemed opportunistic. Whether or not Bloomberg's motivations are noble, however, the revision of term limits - across the United States - is well past due.
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Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the inaugural Herbert Vaughn Lecture on Thursday, defending his jurisprudence of originalism. The 60-minute speech was part explanation and part defense of his commitment to originalism as a tool for interpretation of the Constitution.
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Senior advisors to Senators John McCain and Barack Obama clashed on their two candidates' visions for health care in the United States last Thursday. Obama's plan was presented by David Cutler, a professor at Harvard's Economics Department and the Kennedy School of Government.
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Doctor Jack Kevorkian, one of the foremost proponents of physician-assisted suicide, spoke to students in Ames Courtroom on Monday night. Kevorkian, nicknamed "Doctor Death" for his high-profile stance on the right of consenting adults to choose the time and manner of their deaths, discussed the importance of the Ninth Amendment and the risks of government tyranny.
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Covered in war paint and donning their battle attire, over one hundred 1L's took part in arguably the most epic battle in recorded history. After weather conditions forced two postponements of the monumental event, anticipation had mounted to gargantuan proportions, and each of the seven sections itched to definitively prove its superiority over the rest.
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"Oh, fuck it. Fuck them. Not this week. It's not happening."
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As October crept up on Cambridge, Record photographer Matt Hutchins crept outside to record the changing colors on Harvard campus.
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The ultimate paradox of Meirelles' Blindness is how often it makes us want to shield our eyes.
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By subverting a term limits bill that had achieved overwhelming support from voters in 1993 and 1996, Bloomberg chose to place his own ego above the voices of millions of New Yorkers, and in so doing, damaged democracy in a particularly pernicious way: by deeming himself the savior of the moment for whom the rules must yield.