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Many, many Decembers ago, a little boy found happiness in a board game and a green, plastic model train set. He was six or seven years old, and his family had traveled from a faraway land called Vietnam to the wild jungles of Brockton, Massachusetts. His parents worked on sub minimum-wage, temporary, often overnight assembly-line shifts, so Decembers were frequently marked by their fearful desperation and strain of trying to pay for heating and warm clothing.
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--------------------------------------------- Inaccurate Crimson Reporting Mischaracterizes HLS for Choice Vote To the Editor: The Harvard Crimson recently reported on a meeting of a small group of Harvard Law Students, assembled to form an HLS chapter of "Law Students Against Alito.
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Emblazoned with the texture of winter, I step upon morning snow, my footfall ablaze with tenderness upon the ground. If desire took the shape of a crane, I could be the love that gave her flight. I could carry her silvery torso over blizzards, through smog-laden cities, to her mate upon another continent, to a nest with two eggs.
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Last Wednesday, at an open casting call in nearby Newton, MA, over one hundred would-be TV stars auditioned for a spot on the third season of the hit reality series The Ultimate Fighter. The show, which features amateur and semi-pro mixed martial artists living together in a Las Vegas house and competing for a six-figure contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), has been a hit in two seasons on Spike TV.
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The very first class of my section's 1L year was Property with Professor David Westfall. I'll never forget how silent and tense myself and those strangers sitting around me were as we waited for him to arrive. Most of our collective experiences' with Harvard consisted of the horror stories of Scott Turow's 1L and the caricatures of Legally Blonde.
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Your correspondent was reading the Section Six Slander, the amusing newsletter of that section, and drinking wine liberated from a LRW [Legal Research and Writing] talk, when Floor Neighbor asked if he wished to have dinner at the restaurant Fire and Ice. Just then, the mailbox with filter {'pizza' OR 'free' NOT 'Vioxx'} sounded an alert at an email from the RA, encouraging all to stop by the Hark for "some free Thanksgiving pie.
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I've never written a newspaper article before, but I figured hey it can't be all that hard - why not give it a shot? I decided to write this article about my first two - now going on three - weeks here at HLS. Like most 1L's I had a lot of trepidation at first.
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Many HLS students know the Boston Craigslist, at http://boston.craigslist.org/, as a website where they can find an apartment, buy cheap furniture, or get tickets to a Sox game. Craigslist is a network of online classified ads sites organized by city - a less formal version of eBay that emphasizes local transactions.