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ON THE FOG OF WAR, ERROL Morris' recent documentary on JFK and LBJ's secretary of defense Robert McNamara, Roger Rosenblatt says of McNamara, "If anyone needed proof that high intelligence is a minor virtue, here it is." A thoughtful McNamara discusses the Tokyo fire bombings and later the Vietnam War, both of which he helped direct, with a certain impassivity.
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Ms. Stewart's gross offense against society - the one for which she faces years in a federal penitentiary - is being an arrogant, take-no-prisoners, successful businesswoman. That isn't a crime. It is something the world needs a bit more of.
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There is an important distinction between the many New Englanders running for president and the most viable Southerner running for president.
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Even though the Law School will not begin renovating Harkness Commons until this summer, students can in the meantime skirt around that eyesore and skate onto the newest addition to Kagan's campus beautification efforts: a new ice skating rink on Jarvis Field.
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After 22 years as a Harvard Law School professor, Christopher Edley, Jr. is heading west to serve as dean of the Boalt School of Law at Berkeley.
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Eight Harvard Law School students received two-year Skadden fellowships for public interest, setting a record for the greatest number of law school students from a specific school to receive the fellowships in a given year.
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Harvard Law School is expanding and formalizing its joint-degree programs, building upon its thirty-year success with the JD/MBA program between the Law School and the Harvard Business School, as well as enhancing its international focus through study abroad programs.
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The joint-degree programs, the decades old JD/MBA and the new joint- and coordinated-degree programs with the Kennedy School of Government, the School of Public Health, the Graduate School of Design and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, have and will allow students to complement their legal education while also expanding possible career choices.
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One-L Joshua Davey was on the mind of the nine Supreme Court justices on Tuesday. His lawsuit challenging Washington State's Promise Scholarship program, which provides funding to students who attend accredited colleges in the state based on merit and financial need but excludes students pursuing degrees in theology, has found its way to the highest court in the land.