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As I sat up late at night, staring out of my Hastings window, I sucked hard on the winnowing dregs of my last Camel. As my own personal MP3 megamix of Ryan Adams, the Strokes, Jack Johnson, Ryan Adams and an old Neu! seven-inch hummed discordantly in the background, I tried to put beer pong and cheap lighters out of my mind long enough to fix on what was really important to me.
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Every Wednesday night around 11 p.m., the night the RECORD goes to press, we sit around the office trying to come up with an editorial topic. As the self-appointed group of nine worker bees whose half-drunken whims represent the "voice of the students," we work really, really hard to think of something that everybody cares about enough that we swashbuckling wannabe-journalists can swing our editorial axe at it.
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Before last Thursday, all I knew about money was that Kevin Cronin said to take it and run. (For those readers under 30 and not on Law Review, Cronin was and is the lead singer for the rock 'n roll band REO Speedwagon, one of Billboard's best-selling acts for the year 1980.
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In a move clearly destined not to rankle Dean Clark or cement his reputation as Harvard Law School's most controversial professor, Charles "Eon" Nesson completed a calm, uneventful week today. "I've been working very hard at the Berkman Center, of course, and ... teaching my Torts class," Nesson reported, without a hint of mischief in his tone.
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I am so high, right fucking now. Outside the light is dimming, and the sky is slowly relinquishing its pale salmon hue in favor of something more like seared ahi. With a light ginger mayonnaise, on sourdough bread. Try getting that kind of lunch in fucking Cambridge! Ha! Where was I ... oh yes, the sky.
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Fenno walked down into the basement of Ames and opened the door to go into the newsroom. The door blew a wave of hot, stuffy air into his face. Ken Walczak and Justin Dillon were in the hallway, hands clasped. Dillon was stroking Ken's brown hair and gazing deeply into his limpid eyes.
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Realizing that Hark parties generally suck, the Student Activities Council decided to abandon all pretenses of decency and throw the "Guaranteed Hookups" party, which all students agree was a rousing success. "Usually when I party outside Manhattan, I'm hittin' it with my outsourced stable," said 3L Shawn McDonald.
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The musical cures to spring semester back-stretch boredom: Feb. 23 -- the Dictators (Axis) -- Back in the heyday of the New York City punk scene, the Dictators were big, dumb leather-jacketed thugs that played sloppily even by punk standards. And if this wasn't endearing enough, their songs were about as big, dumb, sloppy and earnest as their musicianship.
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"Rock journalism is the phenomenon of people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk for the benefit of people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa I think I've read too many rock reviews. A few weeks ago I was skimming the weekly rant by one of Rolling Stone's regular web columnists when I was struck with a profound and damning sense of the obvious.
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In the last two years, the Law School has witnessed a substantial shift in its African-American population. Out of 62 black students in the Class of 2003, 42 were female and 22 male. This year's statistics (for students who will graduate in 2004) show a more drastic disparity among blacks where, of a total 59 African-American students, 14 are male.
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During heated debate at a Forum event on February 12, Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), discussed what she described as "the chipping away of abortion rights at the federal and state levels." As evidence, she pointed to Bush cabinet appointees like John Ashcroft and Tommy Thompson, as well as judicial nominees like Charles Pickering, the latter serving as a focus for campaigns by pro-choice advocates.
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Judge describes his New York career track Judge Bentley Kassal launched his career after graduating from HLS and entering the New York bar 62 years ago with a legal job paying $10 a week. Since then, he has served at every level of the New York judiciary, retiring in 1998 only to take a position with the Skadden, Arps litigation department.