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Some women dream about their wedding day. Walking down the aisle, the flowers, the drunk uncles - they love it all. Guys are much more ambivalent, but for many of us, there will be some cunning girl that will come along and rope us in and kill our dreams. In short, they will convince us to marry them.
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Things at the dorm have taken another turn toward the tragic, or at least the weird. The first issue has been the evolution of what must be generously termed, for lack of a better word, the "relationship" between my roommate and I. I am proud to report that the roommate appears to have broken his addiction to World of Warcraft.
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BOARD EDITORIAL The events of the past week in Pakistan are enough to give any advocate of democracy, separation of powers, and civil liberties cause for great concern. President Pervez Musharraf, facing Supreme Court review of the question of whether he may remain as both army chief and president, decided he would not wait for an adverse ruling, and declared a state of emergency Saturday, claiming it was related to threats of violence from terrorists and militant groups.
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The cast of HLS Drama Society's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" prepares for their performances next week. The musical centers on two cellmates in a South American jail: one a political revolutionary, the other a window dresser imprisoned as a result of his sexuality.
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Mukasey Approved as Attorney General By Senate Judiciary Committee White House nominee and former federal judge Michael Mukasey was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, 11-8. Democratic senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles Schumer '74 joined the nine Republicans on the committee in approving Mukasey's nomination as Attorney General, all but assuring him final confirmation by the full Senate in coming weeks.
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Bitter, sardonic wit is no stranger to law school. It comes as no surprise, then, that the caustic media gossip blog Gawker.com is one of the more popular websites spangling the screens of distracted HLS students' laptops. Hence the HL Forum's decision to interview former Gawker editor Jessica Coen, currently of New York magazine, on Tuesday night.
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On Thursday, November 1st, the Harvard Law School Federalist Society hosted Jan Crawford Greenburg of ABC News before a standing room crowd of over 120, eager to see a law school graduate turned Supreme Court reporter speak. Greenburg framed her remarks in terms of the transition from the Rehnquist Supreme Court to the Roberts court, providing the type of current events information that law school Supreme Court junkies crave.
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As I waited in line this afternoon along with a hundred other students for my cup of hot cider, a donut hole, and a shiny Granny Smith apple, I wondered whether students at Stanford would have been so drawn by the lure of free food, or if there was something truly special about hot cider on a chilly autumn afternoon.
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No, really, how am I supposed to look cute in February without getting frostbite if I live in Cambridge? That was the most pressing question on the minds of the students who attended the panel on "What to Wear in Winter Climates," jointly hosted by the Dean of Students Office and Student Financial Services.
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News Analysis Recently, a student approached the Record with what he believed were Harvard Law's current sexual harassment guidelines, but which actually were an outdated copy. Although the current guidelines are available online in the Handbook of Academic Policies, there was an active link to the outdated guidelines on HLS' Human Resources webpage.
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