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Fenno<br />
Fenno fumbled down through the Hark. "These Happy Hours are great!" she thought as she shoved more fish-shaped crackers into her mouth. It had been a long 6 weeks and Fenno was looking forward to a fly-out weekend in sunny California. She'd decided on California over Florida for the week, sometime in between Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Jeanne.
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HLS softball team wins tournament<br />
At least one champion was crowned on the diamond in Boston last weekend, even though the Yankees and Red Sox had to trek back to New York to settle their differences. With the specter of the ALCS hanging over their heads, a squad of Harvard Law School's finest played its way to the school's first ever title in the 3rd Annual Battle of the Boston Law Schools Softball Invitational on Sunday.
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Record Clarification: Hudson responds<br />
To the Editor: Professor Dershowitz's response [see Record, Oct. 14] to my letter to the editor on the Ogletree incident contained somewhat ambiguous language that may have led some readers to believe that I have compared Dershowitz to the Nazi Adolph Eichmann and have also spread falsehoods about the great Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
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Record Clarification: Dershowitz clarifies accuser<br />
To the Editor: The "biased accuser" to whom I referred in my letter [see Record, Oct. 14) was not, of course, Kyle Hudson. It was the anti-Israel zealot who made the original accusation, similar to ones he made against other pro-Israel writers. I apologize to Mr.
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Letters to the Editor: Stop Blaming the Law School<br />
To the Editor: Noah Lewis would like us to believe that HLS is to blame for bleeding its students dry of every public service impulse they have and turning civic-minded, idealistic 1Ls into corporate drones by the time OCI sign-ups roll around. After all, how long can poor, impressionable HLS students be expected to "paddle for their lives?" I have more respect for HLS students than that.
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Record Editorial: Presidential election presents voters with a real choice<br />
My first experience in electoral politics took place when I was in the third grade. Right between snack time and recess, to be exact. It was Election Day 1988, and Mrs. Hayden's class was participating in the all-school mock election. I remember being escorted by a teacher into a makeshift voting booth, taking the thick sheet of construction paper with two names and proudly writing a squiggly "X" by my selection with a glossy red Crayola.
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Undue diligence: jury duty<br />
I'm one of those geeks who was excited to get a summons for jury duty. I really was. I got it in July, and, at the time, October 13th sounded like a long way off. I had just been complaining to someone that I'd never gotten called for jury duty, and I probably never would, and even if I did, I wouldn't get to serve because I'm a lawyerite and they'd strike me.
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Let the military in<br />
I briefly visited the anti-"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" rally on the steps of Langdell last Friday. Since I'm well aware of the arguments of both sides, I didn't stay long - only long enough to see that there was a respectable turnout of good, earnest people, many of them my friends.
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A plea for longer hours<br />
Dear Dean Kagan, It is a idyllic Sunday autumn morning, and while my heart draws me to Sunday NFL Countdown, my mind - well, let's be honest, my conscience - compels me to study. So here I sit, in the Hark, the lovely renovated Hark, which is the only place open to us at this hour on a Sunday.
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Counterpoint: Keep the library closed<br />
Dear Dean Kagan, It is a beautiful day, the only one Boston has ever seen, and only one thing is preventing the day from being perfect. The library is open. Why? Why do we need the library to be open so often, and why do we as a school need to make people feel like they should be studying.
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Voice of the majority<br />
You might have heard this old chestnut before: Child: "Grandma, why is there a mother's day and a father's day, but no children's day?" Grandmother: "Why, every day is children's day!" This is how I sometimes feel about the American Constitutional Society here at the law school.