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There is a perfect and still beauty to moments of aloneness. I have long desired to leave behind most everything in a bid for inner peace, and as winter neared, I imagined that solitude in ice and snow would render my heart a necessary balm. With books and a pad, my pen and tea, I took too a little house on a lake an hour and a half from Toronto.
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Visiting Professor Curtis A. Bradley discussed a wide variety of legal issues surrounding the United States' fight against terrorism in his Thursday presentation entitled "Military Detention in the War on Terror." Bradley's presentation, hosted by the Harvard Federalist Society, discussed legal questions unique to the war on terror including the use of detention facilities abroad, the right to habeas corpus, and the reach of U.
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My family hails from Massachusetts, but we, like many Americans, are in love with the West. We spent months traversing some of the most famous National Parks in America. During those trips, I never thought about whether this land was my land or not. To me, the answer was self-evident - when Theodore Roosevelt pressed Congress to set aside nearly 200 million acres for posterity, he gave all Americans a great gift and each of us an equal share in the future of these great spaces.
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Two months ago, television journalists Lis Wiehl and Jeffrey Toobin came to HLS to talk about their careers, and quickly took to sparring over the quality with which the media covers legal affairs. Wiehl promoted a "follow the money" approach, and said she was giving viewers what the ratings suggested they were asking for, while Toobin fired back claims of irresponsible sensationalism.
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Director: Tim Burton Starring: Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham-Carter Fittingly, I watched Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a Broadway musical masterfully transformed into a movie by Tim Burton, in New York City's Ziegfeld Theater, a one-screen movie theater named for and built down the street from the site of the original Ziegfeld Theatre, which was torn down in the late 60s to make room for a skyscraper.
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The Record: We will spend more time stalking Feldsuk, in the manner of proper celebrity journalists. HLS Administrators: We will stop extolling the virtues of the Northwest Corner project to students who will never be around to benefit from it, but who will be hit up for donations to pay for maintenance of the building for the rest of their lives.
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Over winter break Kermit saw his good friend, the University of California, Santa Cruz Party Small Gnome. The Party Small Gnome wanted to remind everybody that because large parties likely have lots of alcohol, sex, and drugs that they should "Just say Gnome" to large parties.
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Visitng Professor Roger Ballentine invited Senator John Kerry to speak to his Law of Climate Change class on Wednesday morning. Kerry discussed his past involvement in climate change efforts, including his work on the Kyoto Protocol and the recent U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, as well as his acid rain initiative during his time as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
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Harvard Law students made another impressive finish in this year's Skadden Fellowship awards. Six students, 3Ls Liz Cho, Lam Ho, Dan Klaff, Grace Spulak, and Brandon Weiss, and recent graduate Dan Farbman, '07, received the prestigious public interest fellowship, which provides a $46,000 yearly salary plus benefits, and which is renewable for a second year.
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Monee Takla and Kristin Small Win Over $37,000 for Client After months of negotiations and trial preparation, Monee Takla '08 and Kristin Small '08 last week finalized a settlement agreement awarding approximately $37,000 in cash and future rent to their client, the mother of two children and caretaker of a granddaughter.
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When I started law school two years ago, I imagined my third year winter something like this: Me, in a jaunty hat-scarf combo, confidently striding through the tunnels, a veteran of Boston winters and end-of-semester stress. I'd have a grudging love for the wind and snow, fantastic outlines finished or stolen, and best of all, a public interest fellowship in hand, and the knowledge that I was coasting to my future as a Leader of Tomorrow.
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The war in Iraq, healthcare, abortion, law school, blah, blah, blah. Can we talk about something that's really important? How 'bout Z-fold paper towels. That's right, I said it. Somebody had to. Z-folds are the double-folded paper monstrosities that are still dispensed in many bathrooms.