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Opinion Editor ADAM WHITE has some advice for One-Ls: "Please, in your first weeks here, consider a bit of humility before you rush off to solve the world's problems. Remember the limited powers of the Court and the threats to liberty posed by a generation of lawyers to whom those lessons have been largely forgotten."
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FREDERICK POLLOCK III analyzes the news, reflecting on a few summer corporate happenings to assess the current state of the economy.
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In a guest opinion column, Visiting Professor RICHARD PILDES writes, "Legal issues concerning the structure of American democracy have increasingly come to dominate the Supreme Court's Term. While constitutional law scholarship has emphasized individual rights, issues of equality and theories of judicial review, the Supreme Court's increasing confrontation with the structure of elections and governance has been one of the least well appreciated developments in Supreme Court practice over the last decade."
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The Record Editorial this week takes a look at several areas on campus that need to be improved. Grading, First Year Lawyering, legal writing, the pervasive influence of corporate culture, and on-campus interviewing are all areas that our new academic year should be spent examining and that our new dean should focus on fixing.
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Opinion columnist GARRY GRUNDY relates the lessons he learned growing up poor in black America, and traveling to South Africa this summer. The truth of Afro-economics is that, "the African way of life has become vastly disjointed at the hands of market forces."
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"At the heart of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act," writes KATIE BIBER, "is one cold reality: As is often the case when it comes to incumbents writing the rules of their own game, BCRA will make it much easier for entrenched politicians to keep their jobs. "
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Humorist JEREMY BLACHMAN writes, "I suppose it makes sense that it's hard to focus on the reading when we have so many other things going on. Lying in bed at night, I've taken to counting names of law firms in order to fall asleep. Even in everyday conversation, the simplest question - 'how's everything going?' - immediately triggers the thought of how I would answer if this was really a law firm interview and I was talking to a hiring partner."
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Two years after the most devastating terrorist attack in American history, Americans must grapple with a series of questions. Do we feel safer now? Do we feel more informed about what motivated the hijackers of 9/11? Do we feel questions of balancing security and freedom have been adequately addressed? News Editor HUGO TORRES takes an in-depth look at 9/11 two years later.
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JONATHAN SKRMETTI, like most Americans, remembers exactly where he was on 9/11. "In the Hark, people were milling around, speaking only occasionally and then in the hushed tones of a wake. Orrin Hatch summed up the feelings of a shocked nation when he said, 'We're going to find out who did this, and we're going to kill the bastards.'
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According to the Boston Globe, a senior adviser to Harvard President Lawrence Summers said that a new proposal does not call for moving HLS to Allston. Also, HLS is investigating the will of a deceased alumnus who supposedly made several comments about leaving his estate to the Law School.
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As part of our special September 11 issue, Professor Charles Ogletree writes about the impact of, "one of the most significant and painful days in America's history." He says that we are, "big enough, smart enough and strong enough to balance liberty and security."