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Much is made of the growing income inequality in America. The New York Times recently published a series of articles exploring the virtues and problems of a "New Gilded Age." Senator John Edwards' campaign platform, is entitled, "The Plan to Build One America.
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Debra Dickerson, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1995, was one of the first, if not the first, to claim that Barack Obama was not black. Her argument, featured in her Salon.com article, hinged on his ancestry. To be black, she opined, one must be a descendant of West Africans brought to America as slaves.
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You know those commercials with the tag line, everything stays in Vegas? I have a friend like that; she can change her personality, her appearance, her mannerisms, at least temporarily. I wish I could change myself that easily, put on the right accessories and go out into the world as a new person.
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This past Saturday, Harvard Law School hosted the first ever academic conference on poker's strategic value. The conference, entitled "Innovative Thinking: The Educational Value of Poker," brought together students, academics, businessmen, educators, and experts from around the country.
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The Law School inaugurated its new Program on Terrorism and the Law Tuesday with a panel entitled "Dealing With Terrorism: What Congress and the President Should Do." The panel featured Representative Jane Harman '69, chair of the Intelligence Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Committee in the House; Michael Leiter '00, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and HLS professors Phil Heymann and Jack Goldsmith, themselves experts and extensive writers about the government and national security.
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Charles Ogletree, Jr., the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice hosted award-winning filmmaker Hafiz Farid on Tuesday for a screening of the documentarian's latest work, "Darfur Too Dark Too Far".
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Antonia Hernandez decided to go to law school without knowing a single lawyer, inspired by walkouts at East Los Angeles high schools in the late 1960s where students agitated for better educations. "I went to change the world," she told an audience of students Monday night.
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The Oliver Hill Memorial Team won the 96th Ames Moot Court Competition Wednesday night. The competition was presided over by Justice Antonin Scalia. He was joined on the bench by Judge Debra A. Livingston of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Carlos F.
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The Harvard Law School Human Rights Program presented the second event in its 2007-2008 lecture series, "Critical Perspectives in Human Rights," on Monday, November 5th. The featured speaker, Manley Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the European Law Research Center, David Kennedy '80 opened with an introduction of his own scholarly work, focusing on two of his more recent books, The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism and Of War and Law.
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Intelligence was set aside for the animal kingdom; humans are bound by the divine (and discriminatory) law of the Shastras - so says a colorful and fiery Brahmin priest who goes on to scold mankind "not to use logic." This character is one of many extremist figures populating the reels of "India Untouched", a documentary critical of the Hindu caste system and its effects on social and economic conditions in modern India.
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a. Yes, because he paid attention for 20 minutes, in between Facebook Scrabble games, during the BARBRI lecture. b. Yes, because the test has a 80% pass rate. c. No, unless he brought a crib sheet in with everything you need to know to be an ethical lawyer.
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Dear Editor, I wish to commend you and your staff for publishing both a recent article by Professor Daryl Levinson, and a reply to the article by Volokh, that focused on the assertion by Professor Levinson that many of the law professors lack basic real world legal experience.