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Save Toby<br />
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Harvard! Cool!<br />
I can't believe it! I came here expecting nothing, and I'm leaving with a bright red messenger bag. This is awesome. Harvard is even better than U.S. News said! The best part of the weekend was the mock class I got to sit in on. I think it was called "Legal Profession.
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On networking<br />
1. Like dispositive, vis-à-vis, and coldcall, "networking" is a word heard too often in law school. But unlike the other three, we knew what networking meant before arriving here. Networking is the word we would use in polite company when we meant to call someone a brown-nose, ass-kisser, glad-handler, or expert bullshitter.
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Finding the exit<br />
I have never hidden my confusion and irritation with the People's Republic of Cambridge. I don't understand how a place with nine months of winter can have such exorbitant rents without having ski lodges or lax narcotics laws. I don't know how the infrastructure of a city containing MIT can fail to apply basic mathematical concepts such as straight lines, ninety-degree angles, and the meaning of the word "square.
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Fenno<br />
Fenno sighed. How was he going to follow the big Pretty Pretty Princess scandal? It was a few days before Spring Break, and Fenno was wondering why he hadn't skipped out two weeks ago like Chris Keenum. Fenno just didn't have the balls. "Blah, blah, blah.
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C’est La Vie Society<br />
If you heard a loud, grind-ing sound recently, don't be alarmed. The Vie Society, Harvard Law's own Junior League, made its inglorious debut last week, and that noise you heard was the glass ceiling sliding back downward another couple feet. For those of you unaware of the Vie Society, it could be for any one of several reasons.
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NITpicking<br />
March comes round each year, and with every Selection Sunday we hear the same talk of Cinderella stories. Small conference teams with big time voices. This year's Bucknells and UW-Milwaukees. Teams not expected to make a peep are suddenly roaring. These teams are dancing, trying on the glass basketball high tops and finding they fit.
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NEWS BRIEF: ACLU Chief speaks to students<br />
Anthony D. Romero, executive director of American Civil Liberties Union since Sept. 2001, spoke on Wednesday about the current legal climate regarding civil rights. The sixth executive director in the ACLU's history, Romero is the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity.
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POEM: lantern festival<br />
In a muted vocabulary, breath-taken, through Pound Hall windows, the seamless, rain-slicked evening wavers headlights like a Broadway show. Each periodic change of stoplights, breaking into release, upon the neon texture of city traffic, shifts to and fro against an ebony landscape, in a song mosaic with bewilderment, filled with drivers as gallant, peculiar, faceless as human dragon chains in Monterey Park, California, where placeless Chinese dissidents drink it up for one more afternoon.