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Law Noir?<br />
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Emanuel’s Outlines: College Football<br />
I will never understand you Yanks. You manage to misuse the word barbecue (what you mean is... say it with me, people... Grilling. GRILLING). You look confused when I say, "I am going to fetch a Coke," and return with a diet Sprite. You think a mobile home is something used for traveling the country after retirement, rather than a place to raise a family.
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The humble lawyer<br />
Just this past week, lawyers at a large Manhattan law firm (acting pro bono) moved a step closer to forcing New York to spend roughly an additional $6 billion on New York City's public schools. This wasn't done through frantic lobbying efforts in the legislative assembly, or by having the citizens express their voice through a referendum.
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Diva is Divine Cuisine<br />
Cambridge and Somerville have a surfeit of Indian restaurants. Most popular are the buffets that abound in Harvard Square, feeding the lunch crowd of grazing undergrads and doctoral students. Honestly, I've never been a huge fan of buffets. Someone before me always takes the last of the tandoori chicken, the spices are always toned downed to a least common denominator of heat, and I am deathly afraid of large vats of kheer (limpid rice pudding with cardamom).
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HLS Alum Abedayo Ogunlesi ’79 honored by Harvard University African alumni<br />
This past Saturday, December 4, Mr. Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA '79 was honored by the Harvard African Students' Alumni Network (HASAN) as the first recipient of the HASAN Achievement Award for "consistent and superior performance in his professional career.
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Is Harvard more progressive than Berkeley?<br />
Is Harvard more progressive than Berkeley? That was the topic of an e-mail that I received from one of my friends last week. Although the answer to that question is normally a resounding no, it appears that, at least on the topic of military recruiting and school nondiscrimination policies, Harvard has Berkeley beat.
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Fenno<br />
Fenno was fucked. Exams were mere days away. And, as usual, Fenno found himself wondering where the previous ten weeks had gone. It seemed like only yesterday he was pacing Jarvis Field in the August heat, looking for cute, clueless 1Ls to whom he could offer his moving-in "assistance.
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Book Review: Birth of a System: The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson<br />
[Note to reader: weird spellings, such as "oeconomy" and "Technologickal," are intentional.] Clausewitz vs. Robot Science fiction writers have long been obsessed with history. This usually manifests itself in some sort of time-travel, such as in TV's Quantum Leap or the film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, in which the heroes finds themselves in medias res during various historical events.
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“In Good Times and in Bad Times…”<br />
Engaged in its first diplomatic quarrel of the second Bush administration, the United States finds itself in a delicate pas de deux with one of its most important strategic allies, Russia. The point of conflict? Ukraine's allegedly fraudlent presidential election.
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Committee to Revamp FYL Program<br />
The Committee on the First Year Lawyering Program led by Professors Andy Kaufman and Allen Ferrell expects to institute numerous changes in the program for next year, including a reduced class size of 40 students and a heightened coordination between first year courses and the FYL Program.