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Lennonism: Diplomacy for dreamers<br />

ADAM WHITE doesn't mean to, "diminish the good that international law can and does achieve." However, he does want to call attention to its limits. "We enjoy the blessings of liberty only because they have been secured by force against the world."

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Letters: Advice for the RECORD and “difficult conversations”<br />

George Hicks writes in to ask why so many students say that they care about the way race is treated at HLS, but then didn't show up for the "Difficult Conversations" workshop this week. Also, the Federalists respond to The RECORD's editorial last week when we wrote, "Conservatives should shut up about silencing."

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JOLT symposium discusses copyright<br />

This weekend over 100 participants gathered in Langdell North and the Ropes-Gray Room to participate in an annual symposium organized by the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. This year the symposium was organized around the topic, "Copyright and Fair Use: Present and Future Prospects."

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A bite of the blue<br />

"In big cities, as we all know, hotel restaurants are not just for hotel patrons," writes ERIC CZEPYHA. "Azure, a swank Boston eatery located in the Lenox Hotel, may in fact be too cool for those boys and girls upstairs ordering room service."

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Rock travels<br />

"So they want me to write about 'road rock' for the issue before spring break," writes JEFF LEVEN. "Pages and pages have been written about the deep connection between rock and the road, particularly in the American context . . . for a young duck-tailed hipster of the era, it really didn't get much better than owning both a Chevy Belair and a Fender Stratocaster."

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Vino & Veritas: Wine & cheese<br />

"Unfortunately uncommon, cheese boards are a wonderful way to put the finishing touch on a great dinner." JOSH SOLOMON checked out the assortment at a new restaurant, Upstairs On The Square, and attempted to grapple with the mystery of cheese-wine pairing.

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Theater for a different demographic<br />

"Theatergoers are usually older, upper-middle class white people. It may be unfortunate, but it's still true." AMANDA GOAD checked out Breath, Boom, the absorbing story of an all-female inner-city gang. "It challenges some of the conventions of theater, without getting crazy," she writes.

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Bloody mess<br />

"The Hunted is a seriously flawed and violent movie," writes TRACY CONN. "Any of the characters or their points of view could have been sympathetic, but none really were."

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Fenno: The Mother of All Fennos<br />

It's time for war, and all Fenno can think about is coming up with a flashy title for his article. Whether you're watching the war on the big screen set up in the Hark, or playing EA Sports' Gulf War II on the PlayStation, there's one thing our nation can all agree on: we hate France.

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Photo Essay: Spring at HLS<br />

With temperatures this week getting into the mid-60s, Harvard Law students finally began to hope that perhaps spring was finally here (or at least not too far around the corner). RECORD photo editor ERIN BERNSTEIN captured spring at HLS for the paper.

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Fenno<br />

Fenno sat in front of his laptop staring at his Dean Robert Clark wallpaper. He looked down at his stopwatch. It was almost four o'clock. According to cryptic messages from the ITS desk, at precisely four o'clock, HLS e-mail would be operational for exactly twenty-eight seconds.