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Fenno couldn't believe what he was seeing. It had started out as a routine day for him. As usual, he woke up, went to a couple classes, grabbed lunch, and did some reading. Also as usual, around 5:30, he headed up to the fifth floor of Griswold and paced the hallway as he waited longingly for Professor Jolls to head home for the day.
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It's that time of year again. 3Ls have sent off their acceptance letters, dreaming of the 60-hour workweek and the six-figure salary attached to it. 2Ls have settled on a place to work, wondering if they'll get the offer and if the decision they just made is one that will extend beyond a summer.
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The latest ridiculous display (literally) by the United Nations: In response to Yasser Arafat's death, UN flags flew at half-mast. This is general UN practice for the passing of the leader of a UN member country. But, as Friday's (11-12-04) Wall Street Journal points out, Palestine is not a UN member; its UN status is that of observer.
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I welcome Mr. Lamberson's assertion about the HLS Republicans in his recent post-election article. ["The lack of dissent among the HLS Republicans is frightening ..."] It not only demonstrates his utter ignorance of the make-up of our group, but, more importantly, symbolizes the continued inability of the Left to come to grips with the true meaning of the resounding results of the 2004 election.
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Some folks around here shriek with terror and chain themselves to subway cars at the prospect of being more than a hundred miles from a large coastal city. The election exacerbated their fears and now they can no longer bear to watch "King of the Hill" or "Green Acres" reruns.
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Many 3Ls, myself included, took the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Exam last Friday - the MPRE, for short. For all of you who haven't yet had the pleasure of jumping through this particular law school hoop, it consists of 50 multiple choice questions covering a range of topics in legal ethics.
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It's the current fashion to extol the parity that Commissioner Paul Tagliabue's rules supposedly laid upon the NFL. Every couch quarterback rants on about how salary caps and free agency have brought the league into an everyman's era, leveling the playing field for all comers.
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Do not grieve the piecemeal leaves: they say: for unto dying: the homeless shall survive: the laborers discover innocence: the minorities one with the whole rhyme of America: dear misshapen leaves: leaves who are wholly our people: torn from the skeleton: is your heaven unto dying in the blackening compost: the ample soil scorched beneath each schoolchild's footpaths?: an ambulance emerges from the whimsical smoke: what war today?: an apple-cheeked reporter on the beat breathes her purple lips into the microphone: she wants to calm us down into a well-quaffed America: just close enough to the scene of the accident to glimpse the caress of a torch song sunset's shadows cascading down a burnt sienna building: to not leave the Capra geography: a quartz pane separates us from savagery: a eulogy of names on glossy ebony: not the nightmare but an attempt to distill truth from rubble: disrobed: de-boned: essentials we clutched on to as immigrants: across the Bering Strait: on the Mayflower: into Ellis Island: ships with African slaves lashed to mold-laden racks: boat people from eastern Europe: from Asia: that even in the urgency of an escape into entry a river bordering Mexico laps frothily into a shoreline shimmering beyond disbelief: a river can grin: the harbors of sidewalks swell with leaves: acres of tawny-blue with reddish-tan: gutters full of pilgrims: soldiers in Vietnam: in Gettysburg: who never left their battlefield to comprehend how a heart can break so easily: that the depth of the voice of a formally handsome white gentleman in his mid-sixties may funnel our soliloquies into sound bites: approval ratings: election returns: a country as divided as two attorneys who always find pies halved unequally: a couple braves the chilled cemetery air: one is sobbing into a plaid green-orange handkerchief: the other refuses to look up from that gravestone: how could they help themselves?: the winter confronts their dignity.
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On Wednesday, November 3, three experts in alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") spoke about their careers and thoughts about mediation and arbitration. John Bickerman, Stacey Cushner, and Margaret "Peg" Leibowitz came to campus as part of the World of Law series of lectures sponsored by the Harvard Mediation Program, the Office of Career Services, and the Office of Public Interest Advising.
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Harvard Law School alumni scored numerous victories in congressional races last week, bringing to 21 the number of members of Congress who graduated from HLS. Barack Obama '91 made the biggest headlines as he won the open senate seat in Illinois by a landslide.