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Imagine awaking every day in a random hotel room with no knowledge of where you are or why you are there. You know your identity and can remember most of your past. Your last memory involves the brutal rape and murder of your wife, but you have no idea how long ago it took place, nor what has occurred in the interim.
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Last year, the Democratic Party lost one of the closest elections in U.S. history, despite economic prosperity and a Democrat in the Oval Office. So was it the candidate or the party? If the words of a future candidate are to be believed, it may have been both.
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Free beer wasn't the only thing on tap at the annual Public Interest Auction last week. There was also plenty of singing, dancing and, of course, high stakes bidding. For eight years, the Public Interest Auction has served as a focal point in the HLS social calendar.
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On Wednesday, April 18, 46 students from the various Harvard schools commenced a sit-in at Massachusetts Hall (one of Harvard's administrative buildings), demanding that the University pay all of its workers a living wage of $10.25 an hour, with benefits. The group included HLS students Aaron Bartley '01, Faisal Chaudhry '03, Fatma Marouf '02 and Ashwini Sukthankar '02.
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The Conservative THE FIRST 100 DAYS by Aaron Olsen Things are changing at the White House. All the "w" keys have been replaced in the keyboards, the graffiti has been cleaned off the walls, and I am sure the Oval Office floors got a good scrubbing. Bush has also ordered that no more X-rated films be shown as in-flight movies on Air Force One.
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For many 1Ls, T.J. Duane '02 was the first person to greet them at their first bar review. Now the man who students think of as synonymous with HL Central is turning over the reins of the community-building organization that he founded a little more than a year ago.
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Duncan Kennedy Housing Law and Policy An intellectual powerhouse. Preten-tious and condescending. Such is Duncster, a man renowned as much for his bourgeois sensibilities as for his intolerance of serial gunning. Kennedy's breadth of knowledge - from the intricacies of legal doctrine to the abstractions of cultural studies - together with a dazzling articulateness, clearly set the man apart.
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The tribe has spoken. Two weeks ago, "Survivor" viewers watched Nick Brown '02 approach the wooden-spoon contraption of host Jeff Probst and, as simulated tribal chants played in the background, get promptly axed from the hit television program. The poorly crafted appropriation of native ceremonials seemed only an afterthought as Brown's chance at the $1 million prize - and HLS's chance at being perceived as number one in the eyes of greater society - were extinguished along with the flame of Brown's torch of life.
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In 490 B.C., the Athenians defeated an attacking Persian army on the Marathon plain. They were so overjoyed at their success that they sent a messenger to Athens, twenty-five miles away, to relay the news. The messenger ran all the way to Athens, delivered the message and died on the spot.
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The HLS Volleyball season ended in expected fashion, with The Miller Lite's winning the championship on Monday night, but not without some drama along the way. The quarterfinal matchup between Danielle's Team and Sonic Death Monkey proved to be the closest contest of the playoffs.
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By now, the news has settled in. Harvard Law will be a different place next year. The Strategic Plan has reformed the first year classroom experience, it will provide more money for financial aid, it will lead to the hiring of several new faculty members. Criticism of the finalized plan has been muted - after all, who could argue against radical reforms like seven law colleges? Well, I could for one.
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Editors lack objectivity, grammar, skills The April 13, 2000, article about Ann Coulter ["Right-wing columnist calls for Roe repeal"], starting with the headline and continuing throughout, described her variously as: a [r]ight-wing columnist; a conservative journalist; and a conservative pundit.