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To the Editor: In your most recent edition, Katie Mapes wrote an outstanding article titled "Interviews R Us," in which she demonstrates an understanding that few people want to work for large law firms, but must do so to earn enough money to pay their debts; and so the interview process with large firms is often one involving a series of lies and unkept promises.
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A group of about 20 students traveled to Washington D.C. from February 15-17 as part of an annual trip organized by the HLS Democrats. "While in DC, the HLS Democrats aim to meet with elected officials, government lawyers, campaign operatives, and lobbyists," said David Burd, a Co-President of the organization.
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Lawyers from Vinson & Elkins LLP, an international law firm, will be meeting with Harvard law students to convince these future lawyers to join V&E upon their graduation. Instead of the traditional "wine and dine" setting that law firms employ for their recruiting purposes, V&E lawyers will be taking the potential recruits to the local Food Bank to box food alongside them.
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[T]hird-year students Amar Mehta and Sabastian Niles took first place in the American Bar Association National Negotiation Championship. From a pool of 200 teams, Mehta and Niles were selected to represent the United States at the International Negotiation Competition in July.
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The 120th president of the Harvard Law Review tells me to come over anytime to interview her. I email back, confused: "Is it safe to assume you're always there?" She confirms: "I basically live here, yes." So I head over to Gannett on a Friday at 5 pm, and sure enough, Aileen McGrath, 2L, is tucked away in an office, surrounded by a congratulatory bouquet of roses and shelves of musty back volumes of the Review.
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On February 28, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Randall v. Sorrell, a First Amendment challenge to Vermont's aggressive campaign finance law. Last Thursday, HLS students were treated to a preview of the case, in a moot court sponsored by the Supreme Court Advocacy Project, a joint collaboration of Dean Kagan, The Federalist Society, and the American Constitution Society.
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Beth Tossell, Jeff Stephens and Jeff Jamison (2L, 2L, 3L, Housing, respectively) are in the middle of a discovery process that has led them to the farthest reaches of the eastern seaboard, specifically, New Hampshire and Florida. The case is a class action suit that began when a tenant in a Charlestown public housing development built by the federal government and administered by the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) came to the LSC with a complaint of mold.
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While some second and third year students passed the winter term in typical fashion, racking up credits in the plethora of courses and clinicals offered at the law school in the three week long session, others opted to expand their horizons. Whether the choice is the product of altruistic or professional motivations or the product of a determination not to spend any more time enduring a Cambridge winter than absolutely necessary, Winter 2006 saw Harvard students all over the globe.
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The New World is an epic period piece written and directed by Terrence Malick, whose last directorial effort was The Thin Red Line. The film stars Colin Farrell as Captain John Smith and Q'Orianka Kilcher in her debut role as Pocahontas. Filmed only about seven miles from where the original Jamestown settlement was founded, The New World chronicles the arrival of British colonists in Virginia in 1607, and the relationship that develops between Smith and Pocahontas against the backdrop of clashes between the settlers and the "Naturals" they encounter in the New World.
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To the Editor: It was with great regret that we read the recent article, "Harvard's Ethical Dilemmas," by Richard Cravatts in the February 2nd issue of The Record. His statements were not only illogical but also ignorant and biased. Cravatts incorrectly argues that it is an "ethical dilemma" to contest the Solomon Amendment and concurrently accept funding from a Saudi prince to set up a Middle Eastern research center.
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Most columns about Valentine's Day tend to be no more than bitter screeds by jilted lovers and lonely depressives who mock the holiday as a mere corporate revenue scheme and who dismiss love as an illusion that exists only in storybooks and motion pictures.
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For 1Ls (and presumably the 0.5% of 2Ls and 3Ls still job hunting) it's interview season, which means we get to spend an inordinate amount of time lying through our teeth. I imagine the big law firms expect this, partly because nobody actually wants to work for them out of personal conviction or intellectual interest (kidding; don't write me letters, libertarians), partly because all their brochures are so obviously disingenuous (typical quote: "At other law firms that appear 100% identical to us in every substantive respect associates are treated like slaves.