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Even before the administration liberalized the Written Work Requirement this year by including seminar response papers and clinical work product as potential sources of credit, one often heard about 3Ls who had gotten some friendly member of the faculty to sign off on some crazy footnote-free project: three chapters of an autobiographical novel or a documentary about the homeless guy outside the Mass Ave CVS or something.
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The man behind the legal blog Above the Law, David Lat, visited Professor David Wilkins' Legal Profession class on April 11 to share the story of how a Yale Law grad, Wachtell associate, and Assistant U.S. Attorney ended up reporting on legal gossip and news online - all while continuing to post to the site throughout his talk.
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This is the winning submission in The Record's 2008 Short Story Contest. Professor Sunshowitz' torts class fell silent as he began lecture: "Mr. Morgan..." All eyes turned to Peter Morgan's seat, which, to everyone's astonishment, was empty. THREE HOURS EARLIER Peter arrived at the library happy about having gone out and socialized over the weekend.
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Change could be coming to the law school dining services as early as June 2008. After ten years of a contract with Sodexo as HLS's sole food and (for the past few years) alcohol vendor, the HLS administration decided to solicit bids from other companies. Currently, only two vendors, Sodexo and Compass Group's Restaurant Associates, have bid for the contract.
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Dear Editor, Regarding Matt Hutchins' thoughtful Apr. 10th op-ed, there is a middle ground between drug prohibition and blanket legalization. Switzerland's heroin maintenance program has been shown to reduce disease, death and crime among chronic users. Providing addicts with standardized doses in a clinical setting eliminates many of the problems associated with heroin use.
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The common perception of Ukraine four years ago was that it was one of the many former Soviet bloc nations racked by corruption and ruled by an oligarchy of billionaires. Today many see it as a democratic nation struggling to escape from the influence of Russia and its state-owned energy giant Gazprom.
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Board Editorial We don't like to say we're geeks here at Record HQ, but the fact remains that at least some of us were waiting in line at midnight to receive our copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and we can't help but follow J.K. Rowling's lawsuit against the publisher of an unauthorized Harry Potter encyclopedia with interest (particularly as Rowling is, thrillingly, our commencement speaker).
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Dear Editor, I wanted to respond to the Record editorial about the alcohol policy. First, thanks for giving us the benefit of the doubt in this matter and thanks for inviting discussion on this important topic. I serve ex officio on the Ad Board so I cannot discuss the specifics of any Ad Board matter so I want to make clear that this statement is coming from me in my role as Dean of Students since it seems like a good opportunity to discuss the alcohol policy and its enforcement in some detail.
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On Tuesday, the Dean of Students hosted a Town Hall Meeting to gather student input on issues to be considered for the Law School's new Food Service Contract. The two vendors who have submitted proposals are Restaurant Associates, which services Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School, and the current vendor Sodexho, which also services the Kennedy School of Government.
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There are few places in the world, it seems, that Robert Zoellick '81 is not something of an expert on. When the former US trade representative and newly-minted president of the World Bank sat down with Professor William Alford last Friday afternoon, his face lit up upon hearing each attending LLM student's nationality.
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In the six years since China has joined the WTO, it has fulfilled the easiest obligations while the hardest obligations are still outstanding, explained Assistant United States Trade Representative Tim Stratford, HLS '81, in a talk given to Professor William Alford's class entitled "Comparative Law: Why Law? Lessons from China.