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A culture war is being waged in America. Like the war on terror, this war seeks to root out heterodox ways of being - this includes everything from bilingual education to gay marriage to asexual 45-year-old fathers of three having sleepovers at their ranches.
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This week, the Women's Law Association calls for Law Review reforms to achieve gender equality in our law school community.
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Last week republicans orchestrated the largest entitlement expansion in over 30 years by adopting a Medicare prescription drug benefit. Without a doubt, the program will provide welcome relief for many seniors who simply can't afford the medicine they need. But this important goal has largely been subverted by the political interests of the plan's biggest beneficiaries - President Bush and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Renovation plans for Harkness Commons will focus on refurbishing its interior design this summer, and save grander plans for a new Student Center for the years to come. "Ultimately, [the Hark] is too small for the long haul," explained Daniel Meltzer, Professor of Law and Vice Dean of Physical Planning.
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"We have seen great polarization in politics," said Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman before a packed Austin Hall audience. "What was new in 2000," he added, "was that it was so closely divided." Speaking about his work on the Bush campaign as well as about recent political events, Mehlman delivered a speech that addressed the recent shifts in voting patterns and their significance to political campaigning.
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Going back through twelve months' worth of music to compile a list like this offers up an intriguing, sometimes revelatory, cross-slicing of recent memory. For those of us who care deeply enough about the ripples and rhythms of pop culture, it's a way of trying to figure out what key the harmony of the spheres resonates in at the moment in which we find ourselves.
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TWELVE ISSUES LATER AND The Record has hit its midway point for the academic year. The paper began the year with a call to the Harvard Law School community to use the public forum this paper provides; that is, a call for individuals and groups to express themselves on a range of issues and ideas that, while a consensus may not seem likely, a better understanding of one another's positions can emerge.
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"In America" is the kind of movie that needs no critics. Its appeal is straight to the heart, and its aim is true, largely because it comes straight from the heart as well. It invites criticism only to the extent that it veers unwisely from emotional self-awareness to aesthetic self-consciousness.
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Fenno said, "Try fellatio." Karen Pike glared at him. "Her password is not 'fellatio.'" "Try it, just once" urged Fenno. Rob Steenblik snickered. Karen reluctantly typed the word, hit enter, and grimaced when once again their efforts left them unsatisfied.