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NEWS ANALYSIS: Patriot Act expansion raises questions<br />
The Patriot Act has been used to prosecute crimes that, by any definition, do not fall under the category of terrorism.
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Welcome to the front lines, General<br />
Wesley Clark is not the answer a desparate party seeks.
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Why America won’t elect a New Englander President anymore<br />
What's the rest of the nation got against New England? For starters, New Englanders are rich.
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Cass dismissed<br />
Cass Sunstein wants to prove that ideology sends judges in the wrong direction, but all he's proven is that ideology sends Cass Sunstein in the wrong direction.
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Diary of an Interview<br />
4:31 PM: I arrive at the Charles Hotel for my 4:40 interview. Dozens of my classmates are in the lobby. It's a sea of navy and charcoal grey. Most of the ties I see are red. Mine is blue. I'm screwed.
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Harvard delays opening of 29 Garden<br />
Anyone who thought about applying for affiliated housing last year saw the fancy illustrations on the web page. 29 Garden Street, newly-renovated, complete with its own cafeteria, just blocks from the Law School, and ready for occupancy at the start of the school year. However, due to construction delays, the residents were told over the summer that the opening would be delayed until the first week of October.
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Clinicals respond to late activities fair<br />
The Student Activities Fair, usually held in the third week of the semester, was postponed this year to the fourth week, causing numerous clubs, including the Defenders and the Harvard Mediation Program, to hold separate orientations and close their admissions even before the fair.
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Military recruiting policy not so black and white<br />
The debate about Harvard Law School's position regarding military recruiters on its campus is not as black and white as outlined in last week's articles in The Record.
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Thirty? Wow! That’s a big number!<br />
The bush administration gets criticized a lot for a "go it alone" approach to foreign policy. Have these critics been reading the newspapers? This weekend, the New York Times reported that 30 nations are contributing troops to the efforts in Iraq. Thirty! That sure is a whole lot of countries.
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The fall of an NYSE chieftain<br />
After much speculation, Richard Grasso resigned his position late last week as Chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, following a 14-9 board of directors vote to request his resignation. Through the lens of the national media's coverage, the story is a simple tale of gluttony and deserved expulsion.
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HLS fails to defend non-discrimination policies<br />
On September 19, a coalition of law schools known as the Forum for Academic and Institutional Reform (FAIR) filed suit against the U.S. Department of Defense in a formal challenge to the Solomon Amendment. That law, as attendees of last year's Rally Against Discrimination know, forces law schools to let military recruiters participate in on-campus interviewing, lest the entire university lose federal funding.