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The crowd was decidedly international in flavor at Tuesday night's "Enron from the Inside" discussion, sponsored by the Heyman Fellowship Program. Heyman Fellow Leo Wise '03, a member of the Department of Justice's Enron Task Force, detailed prosecutorial tactics in a presentation replete with images and graphics shown to the jury.
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be printed in... OVERHEARD IN THE HARK Internal monologue of unidentified Story Resident, 2:00AM, early Monday morning, November 20: "Damn, the eggs that I'm cooking just caught on fire.
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Kermit took a quick break from his demanding study schedule to judge the Ames Competition. As a judge, Kermit decided that he would ask the tough questions and make sure that teams stuck to important rules such as paper coloration and proper margin space.
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Hang in there and be persistent was the message from panelists at the World of Law Public International Panel last Wednesday evening. The event, sponsored by the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, focused on careers in international law, both domestically and internationally based.
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On Thursday, November 9, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice hosted a panel discussion of Professor Charles Fried's new book Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government. The panel, lead by Professor Charles Ogletree, consisted of Professor Martha Minow, former Harvard President Larry Summers, Professor Jon Hanson, Professor Charles Nesson, Professor Richard Fallon, Professor Frank Michelman, Circuit Court Judge Michael Boudin, and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Robert Cordy.
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The discomfort caused by a thermostat set much too high created an oddly appropriate backdrop for students attending the American Constitution Society's Thursday, November 9, screening of director Allen Durand's documentary, "Willie Francis Must Die Again.
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1. Congratulations! You've been accepted to Harvard Law School! You have made your parents very proud and your peers very envious. If you choose to accept your offer of admission go to 3. If you decide to hold out for Yale, go to 2. 2. Yale rejects you.
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The Registrar's Office Rating: * Maybe you spent six hours trying to figure out how to rank your classes only to be stymied by a computer system that accidentally used all your choices to enroll you in your first choice con law class and waitlist you for all the rest, or maybe you had to wait two weeks after grades were turned in to actually see them.
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Risk David Cope, David Rosenberg Rating: *1/2 Aside from the third-grade level subject matter that has something to do with risk ("Do you know what insurance is? Do you have insurance?"), this class is, apparently, a springboard for David Cope and David Rosenberg to speak about whatever is on their mind, ranging from happiness to anything Rosenberg is publishing that week.
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For the past few years, HLS has placed a renewed focus on improving student quality of life. By many measures, this effort has been a success. The majority of the students I know from my section last year will tell you that they had a good, if not great, 1L year.
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This year, I did the unthinkable. I interviewed as a 3L. And trust me, OCI is just as bad 3L year as it is 2L year. Only it's 1000 times worse. First of all, you're a 3L. You don't want to do anything other than watch TV or sleep in. Second, while you sit there alone in the Charles with all the 2Ls who don't have a clue, your 3L friends are at home watching TV or sleeping in.
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Having grown up in granola-crunching, Birkenstock-wearing Boulder, Colorado, where my aging yellow lab ate unprocessed organic dog chow, I am not new to the scene of eco-friendly vegetarian fare. To add to my veggie resume, I lived with the most wonderful tree-hugging, aluminum foil-washing, Tupperware-carrying vegan roommate for three years.