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Elf?<br />

Jon Favreau's Elf is a clever little holiday movie with some big surprises.

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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.

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Hazed and confused<br />

I've been a victim of hazing. The "forced physical activity" of having to read the anti-hazing statute a half-dozen times, causing me "extreme mental stress" and "extended deprivation of rest."

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Honest Abe? Not on the Lincoln<br />

A strange controversy needs to be cleared up, and I'm happy to help. On May 1, as you may recall, President Bush piloted a fighter onto the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. President Bush congratulated a cheering throng of sailors and declared the end to major combat operations in Iraq.

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Microsoft mediator Eric Green speaks on ADR<br />

Last week nearly eighty students and guests gathered to hear Professor Eric Green and mediator Sarah Worley speak about careers in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for a panel sponsored by the Harvard Mediation Program and the Office of Student Life Counseling.

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The bright continent<br />

While the rest of Boston was freezing through Saturday night, the Harvard African Law Association (HALA) was transporting the Ropes-Gray Room to the equatorial warmth of Africa. With food, fashion and music, it did the trick. "It's a celebration of culture," remarked 2L Saratu Nafziger, President of HALA, and organizer of the Africa Night festivities.

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News Briefs<br />

A judge denies a Solomon Amendment enforcement injunction, prominent democrats converge on HLS this weekend, and the Senate begins an all-night marathon session.

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Rawls Team wins Ames<br />

With closely contested oral arguments, the respondent John Rawls Memorial Team emerged victorious in the final round of the 92nd Ames Moot Court competition held on November 12, 2003. Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, presided, along with Judges Fortunato Benavides, of the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, and Karen Nelson Moore, of the United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, in front of the filled Ames Courtroom with an overflow room in Austin North.