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Iraq war, HLS reacts<br />
As war broke out in Iraq, students at Harvard Law School reacted in their own ways. Across campus, some students put up posters supporting the troops, while others walked out of class to protest the war's beginning.
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Kids in the Court<br />
Imagine a four-foot-ten seventh grade girl standing behind a podium in the Ames Moot Courtroom, before a Harvard Law School professor-judge, declaring curtly to a long-winded witness on the stand, “Stick to the question! Yes or no?” Seem like a twisted version of the Ames Competition? Nope. Actually, it is HLS' Kids in the Court program.
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HLS GOP rubs shoulders with DC luminaries<br />
Every year, the HLS GOP sends a delegation to Washington to meet Republican luminaries. And every year, those left behind are jealous. This year was no exception. Thirty-two lucky Republicans went to the capital for meetings with Justices Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor, EPA chief Christie Whitman, Sen. Elizabeth Dole and Rep. Tom DeLay.
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Students use break to make a difference<br />
For 11 Harvard Law students, spring break isn't a time to just work on a tan and get away from Torts. The students, members of Direct Action, will be traveling to Central and South America to help developing nations. Four students will travel to Haiti, four to Guatemala and two to Brazil.
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HLS wine club declares “wine week” a success<br />
Members of In Vino Veritas, the Law School’s two-year-old wine club, had their wine tasting skills put to the test last week during Wine Week, an event led by the group’s founder 3L Crystal McKellar and marked by, unsurprisingly, lots of wine and comments about wine. For three nights, members consumed nine red and nine white wines, although they were not given the identity of the wines they were drinking. . . . So who was the winner?
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Newsbriefs: The color of money and “sponge worthy”<br />
In this weeks Newsbriefs, the government has announced a makeover of the greenback: on March 16 the Treasury department will unveil a new $20 bill with a subtle change in background color. Also this week, fans of the Today Sponge episode of Seinfeld will soon have the opportunity to set their own "sponge worthy" standards.
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Freedom to compare: Bush & Hitler<br />
"There are some legitimate reasons not to compare Bush to Hitler, to leave the Holocaust, as it were, on a shelf," writes DONOVAN RINKER-MORRIS. "But the notion of 'trivializing' Hitler's genocide, as if it were some brand name that could be diluted by excessive use, cheapens the horror of the Holocaust far more than its exploitation in public discourse."
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Support our troops<br />
The anti war protesters are loud, KATIE BIBER writes this week, but don't forget about the troops defending America. "Even the protestors in Harvard Square should be grateful that America's armed forces are the envy of the world. We all sleep more soundly at night knowing that if anyone dare try to strike America, they will have to face the best military ever known to man," she writes.
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1L Experience: Election season<br />
Who decided to put JEREMY BLACHMAN in The Parody? Well, he's not happy by their claim that he writes about the same thing every week. To prove it he's even willing to send you, the reader, a free bonus column that is even funnier than this one.
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Wild America meets Harvard Law<br />
Are LL.M.s hunting wild animals on the campus of Harvard Law School or is Jeremy Blachman just not funny? ALEX M. GORDON suspects that the Cambridge wildlife is safe, but that Blachman may need some help in the humor department.
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When war hits home<br />
What is war like for those in military families who are left behind? RECORD editor JONAS BLANK writes about what it was like watching his father leave to fight in the first Gulf War. "As the president spoke Monday night, I could feel the old tears well up again. Almost 12 years later, that September has never seemed more vivid. When the president speaks of resolve, of freedom-loving people and courageous men and women, I always think first about my dad," he writes.