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Harvard Law is number one. Lawyers and judges may disagree with that conclusion. Legal academics will surely seize up at such an utterance. The folks at U.S. News & World Report would "tsk tsk" and point to their scientific deduction that HLS is firmly, squarely slotted at number three.
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After our winter recess, the Law School Council is back in session for a busy second semester. Some upcoming highlights: Catching Up on Technology: Thanks to all the students who completed technology surveys for the LSC's "Issue of the Week" regarding technology at HLS.
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Fenno sat in the bathroom stall, listening with great interest to the two females whispering near the sinks. "So I said to him, either you eat it or you are sooooo voted out of my bedroom." Fenno coughed once, and the giggling girls bounded out of the restroom like a herd of frightened kangaroos.
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Praise for Fielding's thought-provoking op-ed I predict that Jeremy Fielding '03 will have an outstanding career as a lawyer. The Perspective piece he wrote for the RECORD of December 1, 2000, shows him to be an excellent writer, a clear thinker and a man with the courage of his convictions.
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I love Websites about food and drink. It's great knowing that you can find restaurant reviews for virtually any city in the world in five minutes. I recently spent the better part of a week in London sitting in a pub I had read about using a computer in Langdell Library.
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First-year students in Prof. Mark Pettit's Con-tracts course may have been surprised when their professor asked them to write poems. Just imagine their surprise if a judge asked them to write a song. That's just what happened last month to Liz Falk '00. Falk, who was a controversial columnist for the RECORD during her time at HLS, is now a clerk for the Honorable Jerry Buchmeyer, Chief Judge for the Northern District of Texas.
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Imagine choking down a slimy platter of sea mullet. Then picture yourself gagging as the salty Aboriginal dish slithers into your near empty belly. Now do it in front of 30 million Americans. For Nick Brown '02, such a scenario was all in a day's work on the smash television hit "Survivor".
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THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS LOVE CLINTON by Aaron Olsen I am going to miss the Clintons. The news is so boring now. No mysterious files accidentally showing up, no intern jokes, no allegations of rape, no finger-wagging denials, no creative testimony in depositions, no "wag-the-dog" wars, no sexual harassment settlements, no court sanctions.
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"He loved being Ronald Reagan." So said David Gergen '67, former adviser to President Ronald Reagan, as he spoke before a standing room only audience in Hauser Hall. Before and during the speech, HLS Republicans celebrated Reagan's 90th birthday with cake and applause.
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A grassroots network of students have swung into action in response to the January 26th earthquake which devastated the Indian state of Gujarat. The group is currently raising funds from students at HLS. The money will go to the Disaster Mitigation Institute, a relief organization that is based in the area.
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To: Dean Robert Clark From: Members of Catalyst Subject: Open Letter to Request Sharing of Budget Data with Students Date: February 6, 2001 Dear Dean Clark: We are writing you to request that you share with the student body information relating to the Law School's budget.
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In January, members of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (LAB) elected a new slate of officers to lead the organization. The new leadership will guide the organization through the hiring of its first permanent managing attorney and the implementation of other recommendations produced last spring by a committee that reviewed the structure and operation of the organization.