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IN PREPARATION FOR COURSE selection, I thought I'd help debunk some common myths for 1Ls and 2Ls paging through the registration bulletin and desperately seeking guidance as far as what classes to choose. 1. The more words in the course name, the more interesting the class.
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This week's letters address Dewey Ballantine, John Kerry and The Boss.
Opinion
AFTER WEEKS OF BOASTING the support of international leaders in his bid to unseat President Bush, John Kerry finally received a foreign endorsement he didn't want. Kerry's subsequent denouncement of foreign involvement in the race, a speedy retreat and reversal, reveals less about his own principles than it does about the failings of unquestioning support of "internationalism.
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IN RE HARKNESS CAFETERIA, 117 REC. 9 (2003) Chief Justice PETTINATO announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion of Court in which Justice TORRES joined. I. "My heart goes out to those who have fought Justice Dick's paternalistic and self-serving standard announced in In Re Boca Grande by continuing to serve what arguably are meals, though this Court, under the reign of that tyrannical justice, have deemed them outside the protection of the law.
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THIS WEEK HARVARD LAW School celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools, Brown v. Board of Education. The importance of this decision cannot fairly be explored in an editorial and nothing of the sort will be attempted here, especially when others who have researched more and lived through Brown and its aftermath have published notable books and articles on the subject.
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The conventional wisdom is that British occupation of China in places like Hong Kong was a win for the Brits: they got delicious tea, sweet, relaxing opium and invaluable knowledge of seafood cookery. But the Chinese may ultimately have the last laugh; while you don't see too many cool opium-influenced products these days, Hong Kong interpretations of Western rolls have led to awesome innovations in cheap postprandial delight available in Boston's Chinatown.
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Kiwi Camara. Lawrence VanDyke. Mary Ann Glendon. This was the Ames panel that affronted the 1L Fenno, in his fresh pinstriped suit. And just Fenno's luck, he was arguing against a state's right to strike openly gay jurors from the jury pool. "What a lovely panel for the argument," Fenno thought: "they all look so nice and clean-cut.
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Dear Amanda, I am a 1L who is planning on applying for clerkships next year. I am concerned about the need for faculty recommendations. I have had lunch with most of my professors, but I am not sure that they know my name when a seating chart is not in front of them.
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"I tell the truth," said former professional wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, at the start of his brown-bag lunch with members of the Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law (CSEL) on Tuesday. Ventura briefly discussed his career and then spent almost 90 minutes fielding a variety of questions from students, in a freewheeling discussion that touched on subjects as diverse and controversial as steroid use in professional sports, the California recall election, his wrestling career, President Bush, organized religion, the second amendment, and his current experience as a visiting scholar at the Kennedy School of Government.
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While most students spent their spring break soaking up the sun or fulfilling a once-a-year obligation to see one's parents, a team of four Harvard Law School women were busy winning first place at the 14th annual National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, held in Chicago.