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Old Man Winter deals Harvard Law an icy hand<br />
The Blizzard of 2001 left more than a foot of snow in the Boston area. But for the first time since 1978, it left something else in its wake - cancelled classes at HLS. On Monday night, a mixture of shock and exuberance descended over the Gropius dormitories as word of the cancellation spread.
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Workshop gives students a new perspective on police conduct<br />
For a small group of HLS graduate students, a three-month workshop on police corruption has been an opportunity to explore the causes of and solutions to police misconduct. Yet, for the organizer of the workshop, the topic is part of a life's work. Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich S.
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Kalam ’02 sets sights on writing life<br />
Ernest Hemingway won one in 1927. In 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald. This year, it was Murad Kalam '02. Kalam, an aspiring novelist and second year student at HLS, won an O. Henry award last month for his short story, "Bow Down," that was published in Harper's Magazine last October.
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Bull-Moose Republicans aim to enlarge party’s reach<br />
More than seven years after the presumed Republi-can Revolution of 1994, graduate students at Harvard University are plotting a new conservative movement, one that envisions an all-inclusive GOP intended to counter widely-held notions about the party's lack of diversity.
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Boyd ’84 nominated<br />
The Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, might soon have an HLS grad at its helm. Before that happens, however, Ralph Boyd '84, Pres. George Bush's nominee for the post, will almost certainly have to navigate a minefield of partisan squabbles during Senate confirmation proceedings.
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Supercapitalism Is Undermining the Moral Foundations<br />
Capitalism is an incredible system, obviously, with the capacity to generate extraordinary economic growth and innovation for any society in which it operates. Free trade and open capital markets have fueled enormous increases in productivity, which have led to concomitant increases in the world's wealth, in terms of material goods to satisfy our material needs.
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Paper tiger<br />
There are two bookends to life at Harvard Law. One occurs at the very outset of law school, a gushing week long lovefest known as Orientation. Lunches are followed by speeches which become interminable tours of the Langdell labyrinth, all with one enduring theme .
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Sharon Not a Guardian of Peace<br />
We, the undersigned Harvard Law students who support justice for Palestine, would like to laud Ariel Sharon and the Israeli voters that brought him to power. To our elation, the man affectionately know as the "Butcher of Beirut" will now be heading the Israeli government.
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Letter<br />
I write to salute the members of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. The Law Review and the Legal Aid Bureau share Gannett House as equals, but we at the Law Review must admit to being far from equal in athletic competition. During my recently concluded tenure as president of the Harvard Law Review, the Legal Aid Bureau defeated us in every sporting event in which we faced them, including our annual Gannett House Flag Football Game held earlier this fall.
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Obituaries<br />
Kramer '38, dean, Assistant U.S. Attorney General, scholar Robert Kramer '38, professor, legal scholar, Dean of the George Washington University National Law Center for 18 years, and Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Office of Legal Counsel during the latter years of the Eisenhower administration, died of natural causes at his home in the Collington Episcopal Life Care Community near Washington, D.
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RESOLVING YOUR IDENTITY CRISIS ONLINE<br />
There is no better way to procrastinate than with a good on-line personality test. You take a half hour or so to fill the thing out, then you e-mail your results around to everyone and compare. It provides hours of entertainment. Of course, no one could catalogue all the personality tests out there on the net, but here are a few.