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It's hard to believe Pulp Fiction came out almost ten years ago. I was just beginning to get into movies around then, and I remember that was the Moment of Quentin Tarantino. Already practically a genre in himself, he was the "It" poster-boy of cinematic cool, as well as its most loquacious enfant terrible.
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Fenno yawned. He'd been riding around with the men and women of law enforcement for three hours, and nothing had happened. Participating in COPS: Cambridge was shaping up to be a very disappointing experience. Despite repeated requests, the policemen had yet to use the nightsticks or the tear gas.
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Dear Amanda, My roommate is being entirely unhelpful in my quest to find sublessors for our four-bedroom apartment. We have a group of four that wants to move in on June 1st, but he refuses to leave until he's done studying for the bar in July. This is preventing us from finding a group of people to take the apartment.
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Harvard Law School teams were busy over spring break competing across the country. While an all-female HLS team won the 14th annual National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition in Chicago [see related article], another more gender-balanced group was in Washington, D.C. competing at the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition.
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"National land use planning...it's a phrase that's never heard in Washington," said former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to an audience of students and faculty on Monday. Babbitt, an HLS alum and former governor of Arizona, focused on the topic of federal land use planning on a national scale during his speech, arguing that "the current conservation effort is not adequate in this country.
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Harvard Law School began their celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision with a talk on Monday by University of Virginia School of Law Prof. Michael Klarman on "Why Brown was a Hard Case." The celebration will continue throughout the week, culminating in a Saturday morning discussion with Brown lawyers and an impressive list of law school professors, both from HLS and elsewhere, talking about the desegregation decision.
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"He seemed to me to never lose his passion for the law or for his work on the Court. He was always sober about his work on the Court and for the country, but was never sullen," said Harvard Law School professor Scott Brewer about The Judge, as he was known to his clerks, or Justice Thurgood Marshall, as he was known to the rest of the world.
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Next week, Ames Courtroom will become Ames Theater, as the Law School production of The Crucible opens to audiences. Transformed through the building of a stage and the placement of large stage lighting equipment, Ames Courtroom will play host to one of the better recognized legal dramas in American history: the 1692 Salem Witch trials as depicted in Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible.
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MORE BAD NEWS FOR President Bush: a Pew Research Center poll revealed George W. Bush's overall job approval rating has dropped to a dismal 43 percent, down from 56 percent in mid-January. Even more telling is the fact that only 40 percent of Americans approve of the way the Bush administration is handling the conflict in Iraq, with 53 percent of Americans outright disapproving.
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THESE DAYS, IF SOMEONE tells you they are a devout Christian, it seems quite likely that they are also Republican. But here I am, a Democrat and a Christian. That's right - liberal, and Christian, at the same time. Crazy stuff, huh? This week I'll try to explain how I can hold such seemingly contradictory world views.