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Fenno<br />

Fenno was elated. The frustrating weeks on the housing market had finally paid off - Fenno had found the perfect place. This year, Fenno was determined to earn his JD living like a homo sapien. He was going to shed the cave-man stigma, attitude and aroma. The past two years, Fenno had refuted the anti-liberal hypothesis of physical hygiene, had laughed in the face of the right-wing corporate washing machine industry and had even donated two layers of his skin walking barefoot on the NASA-fertilized grass in Harvard Yard.

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Cass Sunstein on Originalism<br />

On the final day of Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, Professor Cass Sunstein addressed 50 students on the debate surrounding originalism and constitutional interpretation. An HLS alumnus, Sunstein clerked on the Supreme Court for Justice Thurgood Marshall before taking a teaching position at the University of Chicago and becoming a leading scholar of constitutional law.

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“February One” Lauds Perhaps Lesser-Known Civil Rights Activists<br />

Forty students and professors gathered last Thursday in a small lecture room in Pound Hall for a trip back in time, to February 1, 1960. The Program on Negotiation presented February One, the fifth film in its yearlong series. The HLS Black Law Students Association and the HLS Program on Human Rights co-sponsored this film event.