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On October 5, 2005 the Senate, by a powerful 90-9 vote, approved an amendment sponsored by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) that intends to place certain prohibitions on the torture policies approved by the Bush administration in interrogating terrorism-related detainees.
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A paraphrase: Me: So, tell me, what distinguishes [large firm recently implicated in tax shelter scandal with KPMG] from the other big firms in Chicago? I don't have you all pegged yet. Partner: Well, around town, we're sort of known as the "collegial" law firm.
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BUFFALO, NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2005 - Will the academy forget Carter G. Woodson? Will we fail ultimately to rise to the challenge issued 100 years ago this year by The Father of Black History? Will we stop heeding the early black Harvard Ph.D.'s seminal call, to make available the historical materials that tell the truth about the African and African American past for those engaged in the act of educating? Recent events present ambiguity on the question of how we are implementing his vision, and the question is, "Will the academy forget?" On one hand, the events of last week in Buffalo demonstrate that American history in the black context is being seriously studied, systematically analyzed, and intentionally presented to a global audience.
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Who is to say there is no higher power? The world vibrated to the frequency of Fenno's soul. As the final week of OCI began, a rain cloud of enormous dimensions had enveloped the Boston area, and now that dread process transpired against a near constant October drizzle.
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Rock-Solid Abs in 7 Minutes. Total Loss of Dignity in 3. We already knew that older students were a little "different" from the rest of us - i.e., we occasionally need to stop talking and would never wear sweaters with ducks on them. Nevertheless, we consider them very special members of the Harvard Law community.
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First-Year Class Profile (9/2005) Applications: 7,046 Offers of Admission: 811 Total Enrollment: 557 GPA 75th / 25th percentiles: 3.92 / 3.68 LSAT 75th / 25th percentiles: 176 / 170 46% women 31% students of color 13% hold advanced degrees 48% out of college 1 to 4 years 10% out of college 5 or more years Students in the J.
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Last Wednesday, the HLS Democrats hosted former Representative and current Kennedy School Fellow Martin Frost (D-TX). Frost, who served thirteen terms in Congress and chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the mid 1990s, encouraged the crowd of students to get involved in campaigns and run for public office.
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This past Tuesday afternoon, the East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) program welcomed Daniel Lev, an eminent scholar of Indonesian law and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington, as the latest speaker in its lunchtime talk series.
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1L Lam Ho is usually an outspoken member of Section 2. But yesterday found Ho and a dozen other students with their mouths sealed shut, black words running across duct tape: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." On the same day as the military's Judge Advocate General Corps held on-campus interviews, Lambda, Harvard Law School's LGBT student organization, teamed with over a dozen other organizations to sponsor a rally against both the Solomon Amendment, which requires schools to allow military recruiters on campus, and the don't ask-don't tell policy in general.
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Untitled Through Harkness halls you fly Ravendark hair, flashing eyes As friends among friends we laugh You'll never see how I see you Often together but as far As when Byzantines saw the ruins Of Old Romans and pondered Years and stade after
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HARVARD LAW STUDENT 1575 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, State of Ames 02138 October 13, 2005 Big Fancy Corporate Law Firm Cold Impersonal Office Building Any Major City, USA Dear Ms./Mr. My Firm is Too Good For You: Thank you very much for your recent letter explaining that, despite the fact I am a wonderful person and will likely win the Nobel Prize for Law someday, you were not able to offer me a callback interview and/or a position as a Summer Associate.
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To the Editor: It is ironic that in an article about gay rights, Lebanese Diplomat Sami Zeidan feels the need to demonstrate the "interdependence of human rights issues" by using the example of "queer Jews" as being "vocal activists for a free Palestine.