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I'VE PAID DEARLY FOR MY HLS education, and for that reason I don't take lightly those who accuse my professors of being "embarrassments." Imagine my confusion, then, when I discovered that Professor Laurence Tribe has taken to calling himself "embarrassing."
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FROM TALKING TO SOME OF MY friends at other law schools, it seems like this week is a popular one for Spring Break. And yet we're stuck in Cambridge, with one more week to wait before we can fly down to Florida, spend a week on a beach in Mexico, snorkel in the blue waters of - I have no idea where people snorkel, sorry - go home and see some family and friends, or catch up on Corporations reading (fun!).
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On April 12th, Harvard Law School will begin its official commemoration of the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The Harvard Black Law Students Association, however, began its celebration of the landmark decision on March 5th - 7th during its annual Spring Conference entitled "Aggressive Advocacy: Our Role in the Courtroom, the Corporation, and the Halls of Congress Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education."
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IN JUST THE PAST TWO decades Harvard Law School has made tremendous advances in promoting public interest and attracting those who may not wish to end up behind a desk at some firm in Chicago or Houston. With these goals in mind the Law School should seek to emulate the University's policy of eliminating tuition for students whose parents make less than $40,000.
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This past weekend approximately 400 participants and 35 panelists and honorary guests participated in the Tenth Annual National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law & Public Policy, entitled "Border Crossings: Globalizing the Asian Pacific American Movement for the 21st Century."
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On Monday evening in a classroom in Pound Hall, the Office of Public Interest Advising presented a panel on combining a passion for politics with a law degree. Chris Lehane (HLS '94), who worked in the Clinton White House, and then as political consultant for the 2000 Gore presidential campaign, and, most recently, the John Kerry and then Wesley Clark 2004 campaigns, was joined by Don McGahn (general counsel of the National Republican Congressional Committee), Cheryl Cronin (partner at the Boston law firm Brown, Rudnick and counsel to the 2004 Democratic National Convention) and Bobbie Hantz (former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Committee) in a discussion moderated by Professor David Barron.
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Three representatives from Dewey Ballantine met with the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) chairpersons on March 10th to discuss concrete actions that Dewey Ballantine plans to take to increase its diversity. This came after The Record published an article about a Dewey Ballantine partner sending a racially offensive e-mail.
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Two distinguished public servants were honored at Harvard Law school on Tuesday. Senator Paul Sarbanes '60 was honored for his work on corporate reform and Glen Fine '85, inspector general of the U.S. Department of Justice, was honored for his investigation into allegedly improper activities by the Bush administration.
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Professor Laurence Tribe discussed the context and future of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health as part of the Lunchtime Speaker Series for Staff on March 12, forecasting the statewide adoption of gay marriage by a vote. Tribe expected the governor to ask for an extension for the adoption of the court's decision until November of 2006 to allow the electorate to decide this crucial issue.
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IN THIS YEAR'S PARODY, MY character sang backup in the Lambda song. The joke, I suspect, was that I'm a right-winger, and everyone knows that conservatives hate gays, or, in more even-handed circles, that conservatives frown upon homosexuality. It's easy to see where this thinking starts.
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LIKE MOST SWING VOTERS, I'VE been tempted once or twice to go slumming with the boys from the Republican Party. On occasion, I've checked the box that has sent Arizona's favorite son, John McCain, to the well of the Senate. In 2000, I voted for McCain in the Republican Presidential Primary - and this November, I have every intention of sending this sailor back to the Senate floor to continue the people's business.