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RACHEL CARNACHAN writes, "Phone Booth is a daring and tightly-woven thriller that delivers maximum suspense from minimum resources. Quite an achievement in a genre recently dominated by flabby and mediocre fare."
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Letters: Defending Clark, but not Strang or Lipper<br />
This week, several faculty members, as well as the Law School Council president, wrote in to counter an April 10th column by GEORGE FARAH that attacked Clark's record as dean. Other RECORD columnists in the cross-hairs this week include LEE STRANG and GREG LIPPER.
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Vino & Veritas: Two Australian Shirazes<br />
This week, DUNCAN CROSBY reviews two affordably priced Australian Shirazes, "due in no small part to the fact that I support the war and thus can no longer stand even to look at French wine."
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Locke-Ober: A Boston Landmark<br />
Every city has a landmark restaurant characterized by class, elegance, tradition, and top-notch food," writes EUGENE MAR. "In Boston, the honor arguably goes to Locke-Ober, established in downtown Boston over 125 years ago."
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Fenno: The dreaded 3L paper<br />
Fenno was feeling a little anxious. It was really too bad, as it was starting to interfere with his drinking and seeping. Well, okay, it didn't really interfere with his sleeping. And it didn't interfere with, say, drinks two through five. But the guilt of opening that first beer at 8 p.m. was a little hard to bear.
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HLS town meeting charts future of strategic planning<br />
"I gather that those of you who saw the Parody now know really know how the Strategic Plan was put together." Prof. Dan Meltzer '75 was joking, but after two years of concerted effort, the Strategic Plan remains a mystery to many. In an attempt to combat the uncertainty surrounding the Strategic Plan, a town meeting was hosted this week to chart the future course of reform at HLS.
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The thing speaks for itself<br />
The notoriously aloof HLS faculty outdid themselves this week at Tuesday's Faculty-Student Appreciation Reception in the Ropes-Gray Room. The event, organized and sponsored by the 3L class marshals, was well attended by students. About 100 showed up in all.
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Obituary<br />
James St. Clair '47, Nixon's special counsel James St. Clair '47, Richard Nixon's special counsel during Watergate, died on March 10, 2001. Before representing the president in United States v Nixon, St. Clair defended Yale University Chaplain Reverend William Coffin when he was accused of helping students to avoid the draft.
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Conference weighs roots, future of Kashmir A symposium on the Kashmir Conflict entitled "From the Precipice of War to the Path of Peace" was held on March 17 in the Ames Courtroom. The symposium, co-sponsored by HLS's Graduate Program and the Human Rights Program, as well as the Islamic Legal Studies Program, was a part of the joint paper written by Zubair Chattha LL.
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Doll artist paints new face on Harvard Law<br />
The closest that most lawyers come to toys is fashioning a products liability suit. A recent visit to the HLS campus by acclaimed doll-artist Nancy Wiley aimed to change all that, though. "I like to think of my dolls as three-dimensional paintings," Wiley said to an eager group of HLS students and local Boston residents who attended a lecture, slide show, and exhibit featuring her doll art last Friday in Hauser 104.