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Ask Amanda<br />
Dear Amanda, I wrote in last week with a question, and it and your reply were embargoed due to space constraints generated by a more-tedious-than-usual Fenno and reiterated scurrilous accusations against Adam White by a member of the Blah Review - if only we lived in the days where such an outrageous attack on an author's integrity would require pistols at ten paces.
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Fenno<br />
Fenno rolled around the ground trying to contain his laughter. "How dare he openly confront our cowardly slanders? He has no sense of decency!" squealed a voice full of self-righteous indignation from the upper floor of Gannett House. "It's because he's incapable of starting his own rumors.
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Lost in Laredo
This is a dispatch from Laredo, Texas, the last town on Rt. 35 before Stetsons turn to sombreros and Homeland Security no longer has your back. To my right, beneath the window, Border Patrol crawls along the river in Suburbans with their parking lights on; to the left is a Trinitron as old as the hotel, hue and contrast stuck at full-tilt, and I'm on it, because four hours ago, I placed eighth in the annual La Costea International, the world's largest hot-pepper eating contest.
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The Verdict<br />
In the Cambridge review system, HLS students are represented by one arrogant and all-important panel: a pretentious Chief Justice and two associate justices who are vying for her job. IN RE MONTROSE SPA, 118 REC. 6 (2004) JUSTICE TORRES announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion of the Court which CHIEF JUSTICE PETTINATO joined.
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Go South, Young Man<br />
Visiting the Metropolis Cafe reminded me a lot of the 1927 Fritz Lang movie of the same name, where exploited underground workers make the lives of the elite pleasant. Here a grim, dystopic dinner service pays the restaurant's bills, so it can support a delicious and ethereal brunch on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Letters to the Editor<br />
The 'best interests of the children' standard Adam White's specious reasoning ("States, right?" March 4) would be laughable if the issues discussed in his column were not so important for gay, lesbian and bisexual couples seeking to marry. White argues that because the federal government has a strong interest in protecting children, it should stigmatize certain families and deny them economic benefits.
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RECORD EDITORIAL: Capital campaign will ease burden, raise quality<br />
THE LAW SCHOOL certainly is doing well for itself in terms of money. Dean Robert Clark's fundraising efforts provided the school with the funds to bridge the divide between faculty on the right and left of the political spectrum through increased faculty hiring.
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A plea to non-Religious Right Republicans<br />
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS A strange marriage between the Religious Right and people who care much more about fiscal and foreign policy. I intentionally used the word "marriage" because, like all liberals, I'd like to water that term down to the point of meaninglessness and thereby destroy everything that is good about our world.
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Martha convicted; Other corporate scandal suspects wet pants<br />
LAST FRIDAY, A MANHATTAN jury found Martha Stewart guilty on all counts: two of making false statements, one of conspiracy, and one of obstruction of justice. She faces a maximum of twenty years in prison, although, under the federal sentencing guidelines, she stands to serve around 16 months, possibly in a halfway house or under house arrest.
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Extracurricular elections season<br />
LIKE THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE Awards marks the start of a long and grueling awards season that culminates with the Oscars, the recent election for law review president indicates the start of the extracurricular election season, where 2Ls and 3Ls who promised to radically transform their respective organizations but, handicapped by the lack of collective energy and the institutional inertia of continuing to do things the way they've always been done, effected very little actual change, will step aside to let bright and eager 1Ls and 2Ls promise the moon and deliver an ice rink.
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Guest Opinion: Gender discrimination? Problem solved!<br />
I HAVE THE SOLUTION TO Harvard Law School's gender problem. Listen up, ladies, because this one's for you: Quit your bitching. Before I entered law school, I too believed in gender equality. I read Lani Guinier's study detailing women's problems at Penn Law School - lower confidence, lower class participation, lower grades.