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In law schools we have a special term of endearment for people that we consider to be evil. Those fellow students that make you want stab yourself in the head every time they talk. Those students whose continued presence mandates that the school never switch over to a no-laptop requirement, for the influx of sharp points on writing utensils will undoubtedly lead to numerous prosecutions for assault with intention to permanently dismember or at a minimum render speechless.
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I used to think I knew how to write. I thought I could craft a sentence, build a paragraph. I was even so bold as to think I could turn the occasional clever phrase. Mere hubris. Fortunately I have been shaken free of that complacency. It's not like I forgot how to spell, or to type, or to scribble lines and curves out into words on a page.
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In her October 6 editorial, Yeh Ling-ling correctly identifies a host of challenges currently facing our nation, including the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, dependence on a limited supply of oil, and a broken set of immigration laws. However, the solutions she proposes - including a moratorium on all immigration, denial of U.
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We recently learned that Harvard Law School's student organization Justice for Palestine has invited Norman Finkelstein to speak on campus on November 3. We urge the group to reconsider. Third-year students may remember Finkelstein as the man who, back in 2003, accused Professor Dershowitz of signing his name to books written by the Israeli Mossad.
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Sears Prize (for top-two GPA): Roger Pao, editor-in-chief J.C. Penney Prize (for not even fucking close): Mitch Webber, opinion page editor.
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During the precious, short time between when the rain finally stops and the snowy winter officially begins, I would highly recommend snagging an outdoor table at Red House, even if it means putting on that extra layer and scarf to eat Boston-style alfresco.
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Three days ago, its bucket had been more or less kicked, but - buckling under Fenno's deft and determined grip - the tube of toothpaste reluctantly gave up a final pea-sized dollop of paste. It was enough minty freshness to get Fenno to the drugstore without having to skillfully avoid a run-in with somebody she knew, though she would do so anyway.
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On October 28th, stylish young director Ben Younger, the precocious artist son of an Upper West Side psychiatrist, is coming out with Prime, his new movie from his own screenplay about the precocious artist son of an Upper West Side psychiatrist. This is 23-year-old David Bloomberg (27 year-old Bryan Greenberg), who falls for 37-year-old model Rafi Gardet (34-year-old Uma Thurman).
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In a fine showing of the power of collective action, four Harvard organizations: the Human Rights Program, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, HLS Advocates for Human Rights, and the Environmental Law Society, joined forces to sponsor an event titled, "Oil and the Amazon: Corporate Accountability, Legal Struggles, and Community Organizing.
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Last Thursday, at an event sponsored by the American Constitution Society (ACS), University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein (HLS '78) challenged a standing room only audience in Langdell North to imagine the State of Illinois establishing a "Church of Illinois" as the official state church, the United States Postal Service discriminating against Hispanics, and any state forbidding people from living with their grandchildren.
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Thanksgiving is a very popular North American holiday, first celebrated by a feast in Newfoundland in 1578. Parliament later declared Thanksgiving to be an annual national holiday, to give thanks and ask for blessings for an abundant harvest. Since 1957, Thanksgiving has been set to be the second Monday in October, which oddly coincides with Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day in the United States.
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On Monday, October 17, 2005, HLS had the honor of hosting Ms. Randa Siniora, the General Director of the Ramallah-based Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. Al-Haq is the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, based in Geneva.