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The Harvard Federalist Society brought former Republican Congressman Bob Barr to speak last Thursday on privacy issues stemming from the recent NSA wiretapping. Barr, who also served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia during the Reagan Administration, has been a prominent opponent of the USA PATRIOT Act and a strong critic of the current administration's views on executive power.
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Tuesday, April 25, the Harvard Association for Law & Business (HALB) arranged a conversation with outgoing Harvard University President Larry Summers. The event presented law students with an opportunity to ask Summers questions about his tenure, his departure, and anything else on their minds.
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To the Editor: I was relieved to see that Harvey Silverglate's letter appeared in the April Fools' Day "parody" issue of The Record. Otherwise one might actually have to take seriously his contention that students who speak their minds about racism and sexism dishonor free speech, or try to make sense of his hysterical reaction to "a standing room only 'town hall meeting called to discuss allegations of racism and sexism.
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Judge Richard C. Wesley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit addressed students on Tuesday. In a speech sponsored by the Harvard Federalist Society, the judge discussed presidential war powers in the context of the war on terror. Judge Wesley has first-hand experience dealing with these issues in court.
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Last Friday, the Islamic Legal Studies Program, along with the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies presented a talk titled "Legal Reform in Morocco: Views of a Moroccan Feminist Dissident." Along with Nadia Yassine, Emad Shahin from American University of Cairo, and Ann Mayer from University of Pennsylvania were the other participants at the forum.
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The Series: "Earth 2?" Who remembers "Earth 2?" A short-lived, but really addictive show that aired on NBC for one season in 1994, "Earth 2" tells the story of an eclectic group of lost explorers. In 2192, humans leave Earth to live on giant orbiting space stations.
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My thanks to some of our veterans of military service here on campus for bringing a few inaccuracies in last week's review of Jarhead to light. First, Swofford was not a Lt. Cpl., he was a Lance Corporal (LCpl.). Second, Troy's breakdown came at the expense of a senior officer issuing him a command, not his technical "commanding officer.
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After winning the public interest auction's costume contest by dressing up as a character from Dune, Kermit rides back to the dorms on his sand worm, Harvie, with his prize, the Mr. Sparkle Agenda CD.
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I know what you're thinking. Andrea, you need to get a grip. It's April. OCI isn't until September. Your latest jeremiad against the big firms has come way too early. Trust me, it hasn't. There's only one more issue of the Record after this one, and after that we take finals and then scatter to the winds for the summer.
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Registrar: Good morning, and welcome to our 18th session on how to register for classes using our new system: MyFinallyUpOnTechnologyFromLastCenturyHLS. Now, if you attended sessions 1 through 17, you'll have learned how to find the course catalogue on the Registrar's website, as well as the importance of reading every single e-mail we send you, even if it obviously only applies to, say, 3Ls who want to take Evidence and also Comparative Family Law, but have not yet fulfilled the Legal Writing requirement.
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Isn't it ironic that the self-declared embodiment of First Amendment values wants to silence his opposition? Last week, the President of the fledgling HLS chapter of the ACLU published a piece in the Record that painted a rosy picture of Larry Flynt's upcoming visit.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS., APRIL 17, 2006 - In preparation for Commencement Exercises and in anticipation of nostalgia, certain to set in as I pack up and move away from this campus, I paid a visit to the Pusey Library, home of Harvard's Special Collections. There I examined Harvard artifacts including old Commencement Programs, which used to be printed in Latin.