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1. Scripture tells us that joy comes in the morning. I've found that sometimes religion itself comes as well. Like when my alarm goes off at 8:30 after less than four hours of sleep. I panic a little, with only twenty minutes to shower and get to class, until I remember that it's Rosh Hashana.
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The renovation of the Hark may not seem like much to 1Ls, but to those of us who have been here a year or more it makes an enormous difference. Before, the Hark held a place on the aesthetic scale only slightly above the Gropius Complex. The new renovations at last place the Hark on par with the facilities availble at many other law schools, a development that should not have taken this long for the world's richest law school to accomplish.
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I just read Professor Ogletree's official apology for his placement, without attribution, of six paragraphs of another law professor's work in his most recent book. I'm sure the apology is sincere and that the misappropriation was inadvertent. Still, Ogletree's explanation irritates the hell out of me.
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Four Harvard Law School students participated in a video conference on Tuesday with four students at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. The 90-minute session, which took place in Morgan Courtroom in Austin Hall, focused on issues of post-war reconstruction in Iraq. The dialogue progressed with each side posing questions that the other attempted to answer, with some on both sides offering perspectives that were as distant as the actual physical gulf that was temporarily bridged by technology.
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Last week Harvard Law School 3L Melani Griswold won the McBaine Moot Court Competition, which is open only to Boalt Hall students. Griswold is a participant in the Berkeley Exchange Program and has spent the last academic year studying at Boalt Hall. "Wow, I can't believe the news has traveled," Griswold said.
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Tonight, Thursday April 29 at 8:00 in Ropes Gray, the Scales of Justice will present their annual spring charity concert. While the group originally gave consideration to donating the proceeds to the National Association for the Deaf, they settled on Cambridge public school music education as a worthy cause.
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On Friday, April 16th, over a hundred elementary school children from Dorchester and Roxbury came to HLS to learn more about life at the Law School. Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) is a program that was begun by BLSA in 1993 and is currently headed by Earl Martin Phalen, an HLS graduate and recipient of the Gary Bellow Service Award.
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With a first chapter titled "Debate Cartel", HLS 2L George Farah provocatively begins his new book "No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates" and argues that the current presidential debate system is corrupt and anti-democratic. Weaving anecdotes with policy arguments, Farah manages to keep the book both informative and entertaining while making a convincing argument for reform to the current debate system.
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I COULD NOT HAVE ATTENDED law school at a more crucial time. In the three years that I've studied here, the critical issues of our generation have emerged - some in catastrophic clarity, some in unsettling stealth. Of course, upon hearing such things the minds of my classmates turn to the morning of September 11, 2001, which exploded into our consciousness mere weeks into our legal education.