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A new season has come to HLS. It's that magical time of year when dead roots, stirred by spring rain, come forth bearing new life. By "dead roots," of course, I mean "every club, society, and organization on campus" and by "bearing new life" I mean it's election season.
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This is the first of what I hope will be a semi-regular column about places to visit in the Boston area. The premise is this: I will pick a T/bus/commuter rail/commuter boat stop (or you can send requests), and then I will report back about what's happening there.
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Canadian law students were filled with rapture Tuesday as one of their own abandoned the cooler climes of home to address the diaspora. The remarkable Irwin Cotler spoke of a just, compassionate, and humane society founded upon a mature conception of equality that that allowed justice to reach to its every member.
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Ropes & Gray halts anti-gay adoption work The Boston firm of Ropes & Gray announced recently that it would no longer do work with Catholic Charities that involved finding ways to keep gay couples from adopting children. Students from Harvard Law's Lambda contacted the firm with their unhappiness over the work, including meeting with Ropes' managing partner.
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The decision to have keynote speaker and DNC chair Howard Dean's speech closed to the public was criticized by the undergraduate Harvard Republican Club and their law school counterparts following the conference. Dean's speech focused on a 6-point Democratic message and party strategy for victory in 2006 and 2008.
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Last weekend, approximately 140 Democratic law students from 33 law schools came to Harvard to serve as delegates at the first-ever convention of the National Democratic Law Students Council (NDLSC). The three-day convention marked the official launch for the law student arm of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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To the Editor: The lampshade is not a myth. I am a veteran of WW2 and was in a home shortly after the war in Peissenburg, Gremany and was told not to turn on a lamp. Reluctantly the reason was explained that I would not want to touch the shade as it was human skin.
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Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free This inscription at the base of the Statue of Liberty epitomizes the important role immigrants have played throughout this country's history. Yet despite our idealized "melting pot" image, the United States has often restricted access across our borders and failed to adequately protect the rights of those who have risked their lives and uprooted their families to escape persecution or economic hardship.
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I'll admit that Winter Passing made some shameless plays for my sympathies early on. It tucked Cat Power's "Nude as the News" into its soundtrack in one of the early scenes. Plus, it was all too effective in bringing on a wave of nostalgia for the streets and sensibilities of downtown New York City, in particular the East Village.
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After a discussion with my editor weighing the pros of writing what I know with the cons of self-revelation, I have decided to try to keep this week's TMI and over-shares to a minimum, but it will be hard to avoid neuroses, especially since this week I will be comparing the differences in quality of life between the Left Coast and the Best Coast, as my East Coast cheerleader refers to them.