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Guest columnist FADI AMER was originally going to write an article expressing his frustration over the seemingly unconditional U.S. support for Israeli policies that he feels are contradictory in nature and counterproductive in effect towards any hope of peace with the Palestinians. "Instead, I have chosen to write about something that is equally disappointing: the lack of genuine dialogue between Israeli/Jewish and Arab/Muslim organizations in the U.S. in general, and on the Harvard campus in particular."
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Professor ALAN DERSHOWITZ writes, "Tragedies bring out the best in some and the worst in others. We know of some of the heroes of 9/11 - the firemen, the policemen, the victims - but there were villains as well ... Among the most villainous was the then-poet laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka, who used the tragedy as an excuse for a 'blood libel' against Israeli Jews."
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Barely two months on the job and the Law School has already felt the impact of Dean Kagan's tenure. The Pound Hall classrooms are more alluring and more students than ever can now lounge outside the Hark at the newly-built plaza. But the new dean is not stopping there. Record Editor CLINTON DICK sat down with Dean Kagan for this exclusive interview.
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People in the Navy Judge Advocate General corps like to describe it as a world-wide law firm. The Navy JAG Corps is comprised of approximately 750 attorneys who serve as commissioned officers in pay grades ranging from lieutenant junior grade through rear admiral. They are stationed throughout the continental U.S., overseas and aboard ships.
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Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher spoke to a packed crowd at the Ames Courtroom on Friday, in an event sponsored by the firm in which Christopher is a senior partner, O'Melveny & Myers.
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One of the most difficult tasks students face during OCI is eliminating firms from among the hundreds that will be interviewing on campus this fall. Students can feel overwhelmed by the number of firms coming to Harvard Law School and daunted in attempting to choose one over another. But whether a student decides a small firm is preferable to a big one, or it is the city that matters, two HLS summer associates prove that rewarding experiences can come in all cities and firm sizes.
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What feat of mental acrobatics convinced CLINTON DICK to forgoe a summer at a large firm - where he would have earned more money in four weeks than he has so far seen in his lifetime - in favor of toiling away in the public sector? Maybe it was the fact that his job was with the State Department in Vienna, Austria.
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Interns at the U.S. Attorney's Office are exposed to an amazing array of cases involving such issues as guns, drugs, white-collar crime and even murder. TAMMY PETTINATO dug up some terrific war stories.
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Professor Rosenberg once said, "You should never work for Legal Aid." The clients are difficult, the work is thankless, the opposition is well funded, and all for less pay than a job in private practice. But at the end of the day, helping real people with very real problems is worth the sacrifice.
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Humorist JEREMY BLACHMAN has set some goals for his on-campus interviewing: "I will fix my resume. I will rehearse answers to standard questions about why I want to work there, what kind of law I want to practice, and what kind of tree I would be, if I was a tree at all. I will press my suit. I will comb my hair. I will shake hands firmly. I will use this column as my writing sample. That last one may be pushing it."
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Fenno takes a stroll through the HLS campus.