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One year later: petitioners commemorate Burma protests<br />

They started in August. The decision by Burma's ruling junta government to slash fuel subsidies sent gas prices soaring across the Southeast Asian nation, and tempers flared. Soon, Buddhist monks were out in the streets, and the uprising was general. After years of repression, Western speculators thrilled to the possibility that the Burmese people might take their country back.

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Fenno and the Race to the Charles Hotel<br />

The air was crispening: autumn had arrived, and OCI was in full swing. These were the times, Fenno thought, that tried men's souls. He'd been in top form striding into class, smartly clad in his new suit and crest-covered cravat. This above all was the day he'd been waiting for: the interview with the firm of his dreams. Rising that morning, Fenno's mind had swirled with the imagined spoils of victory: the corner office high above Midtown, where groveling Wall Street clients would lay their last (but still vast) riches at his feet, begging in fealty for his carefully-crafted legal acumen, desperate to save their dwindling fortunes from the regulators' wrathful clutch.

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All Aboard the American Dream<br />

Not only does boarding the train mean that I am going home, to a comfortable place with a hot meal, but it also gives me the chance to stare out the window and wonder, as humanity flashes by my window, what the human struggle means for people, and how the American dream operates on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

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OCI Hokey Pokey<br />

You write a resume You go to O-C-S They say your resume is full of misspelled words You think you'll never fix it but your second draft is gold. That's what it's all about.

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Celebration 55: A Record Retrospective<br />

This past week, Harvard Law School played host to Celebration 55: The Women's Leadership Summit, which marked the 55th anniversary of female enrollment at the law school. Some of the 13 women in the 500-person law school class of 1953 were present, joined by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who attended HLS from 1956-1958. Here, we have reprinted a story published on the front page of the October 22, 1953 edition of The Record. While many glass ceilings remain firmly in place, we would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the progress HLS and America have made over the course of the last half-century.

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Fenno Gets Active<br />

"So is this, like, a newspaper or something?" the girl asked, picking up a frayed old copy of the Record. Fenno wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do - sell her on the thing? He'd agreed to give his old Record friends a hand by manning their table at the activities fair - but only because he thought it'd involve more flirtation than finesse. Unfortunately, this one wanted some kind of pitch. Suddenly, Fenno was actually nostalgic for that case note on quantum meruit he'd been pretending to read for the last three hours.

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Dukakis discusses presidential debates<br />

"I'm quite concerned about what's happening to the debates as an institution," Michael Dukakis '60 said at Monday's panel on presidential debates, which was headlined by the former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee. "I'm not sure that the qualities we are looking for in a President are reflected in debates."

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