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On Saturday, May 7, many of us will be stressing about our second week of finals. In order to soothe your frazzled nerves, this writer prescribes a two-minute study break. Not just any brief study break mind you, but "the fastest two minutes in sports." HLS students, I call on you to celebrate the 131st running of the Kentucky Derby in style - a mint julep in one hand and your Con Law outline in the other.
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Writing a newspaper column is about the most self-indulgent activity there is. Well, actually, the second-most. The most indulgent is writing a farewell column. It carries with it two self-important implications: (1) you think people actually read your column and are keenly anticipating your final thoughts; and (2) you think you have such ponderous concluding words that the entire world has to hear them as your send-off.
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If you learn the loneliness of gardens before the age of ten, you can go back to a memory of your father holding his newspaper open. He is indoors, and you are behind him, but you feel close - you are close to him. With only a clear window pane between the two of you, you try to read the stories off your father's paper, but the fine size of the print keeps you from details.
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Only a hairpin remains of springtime. It is an accurate souvenir, a speech. In all the loveliness of this world, you scrawled a heart, jagged and plain. My heart invents your vastness. Forgive me, I have kept your hairpin. by roger pao
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Fenno was sitting in the library playing chess with himself. "Boy, these chess tables sure are useless," thought Fenno, "I mean, nobody ever plays with them. Am I right?" Fenno knew that nobody came to the library to play chess. People just came to subcite for their journals.
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Fear the broad swath of colors I bring to the Langdell tables! You sit not beside an ordinary law student, but a legend! I will not be satisfied until you submit to the superiority of my highlighter collection, for it is a collection three years in the making, and one which, unless you have made a concerted effort from your infant days in Lexis training, you could not possibly mimic.
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The time for course selection is quickly approaching, and there is an incredibly long and interesting list of classes on the registrar's website. Well, it's a long list at any rate. It seems there are classes on everything we might want to take. And it also seems there are classes on everything but what we might want to take.
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For the past two Saturday nights, millions of sports fans have been glued to their TV sets as highly trained fighters slug it out for championship belts, future fight contracts, and athletic glory. But rather than fighting in a boxing ring and following the rules established in 1867 by the Marquis of Queensbury, these athletes compete in an octagonal "cage" made of padded posts and a rubberized chain-link fence and follow a minimal set of rules (essentially: no biting, eye-gouging, or potentially dangerous strikes to vulnerable areas such as the groin, throat or spine) established in 2001 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).
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I should be graduating this June. That thought keeps popping into my head as I wander among campus these last few weeks of the semester, watching my former classmates as they struggle to finish 3L papers, start planning for their bar review courses, discuss their post-bar plans.
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It doesn't feel like it's been nearly as long as it has since I walked into Austin Hall and started to take a look at the faces of the people I'd share my 1L experience with; since I sat under a tent on Jarvis Field and met my BSA group; since I got called on for the very first time; since I read my very first case; since I wasn't a law student.
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The Boston Marathon took place on Monday, with Josh Sohn (2L) and Amanda Wendorff (2L) participating in the race. Josh came in 51st overall (45th of men) in 2 hours 33 minutes. Amanda came in 410th out of the women (3858 overall) with a net time of 3 hrs 26 minutes (official time 3:33:22).
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In your most recent edition, an article points out that HLS has made it very difficult for students to pick their own classes on a timely basis. The article explains that for some reason known only to the under-employed HLS staff, students are forced to select their courses almost a year before they take them, making the classes irrelevant, and often reflective of a passing interest rather than a true vocational passion.