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The mainstream media has had a field day with the Enron scandal. Editorials have called for a thorough investigation (with The New York Times arguing such an investigation was needed to "restore public faith in capitalism"). The political cartoonists have been drawing pictures of donkeys and elephants, each with one hand in the cookie jar.
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Recently, an excellent editorial was written by John Balzar in the L.A. Times, which I believe everyone, especially law students, should read. Superficially, the piece was about the collapse of Enron. But more importantly, it was about the collapse of the American ethic.
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For the RECORD Winters in Boston are miserable by virtue of the weather alone. Add an excruciating winter term to that, and you have a veritable season in hell. Winter term does have its merits. It offers students a time for more focused study uninterrupted by other coursework.
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Dear HLS students: I wanted to send out a petition as we leave behind the weekend that HLS has the audacity to call our "Winter Recess" and before we forget the brevity of our "Fall Recess" and our wonderful Saturday class on January 5th. While it is nice that HLS invites interesting visiting professors to teach Winter Term courses, I think that Winter Term should be elective.
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I'm experiencing a break withdrawal but am ready for the beginning of the end. That's how I feel as I sit at my computer listening to Too Short, getting high by myself, in Berkeley, Calif. But like last semester, everything's not as chill as it appears. I have to start writing my third-year paper; my "Drug War" professors gave me a "pass," the Berkeley equivalent of a B/B+, just because I know what I'm talking about and don't pretend not to; and I'm trying to figure out how to make this semester palatable without engaging in self-destructive behaviors.
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Trademark law provides that when the name of a product becomes sufficiently generic -- becomes so widely used as to stand for a kind of product and not just the product itself -- it may lose trademark protection. That's what happened to aspirin and cellophane, for example; both were once the names of specific products.
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David Bitkower Having narrowly escaped the wrath of the piqued waitstaff at Metro, where our editors intriguingly decided to make up for a negative review in this space by selecting the restaurant to host the RECORD's annual Fall Banquet, your humble reviewers have both sworn off negative reviews for a minimum of one week.
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By all rights, 2001 should have been the year of Stanley Kubrick. In a perfectly-scripted world, the year would have begun with the hearts and lips of devoted Kubrick fans still buzzing from the sublime sublimation of Eyes Wide Shut (2000). Having basked in the fullness of the great director's last epic, adoring throngs could then have swarmed into theatres to rediscover 2001: A Space Odyssey in all 70 millimeters of its reprinted glory.
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Countdown to the ten finest albums of 2001 One thing I have learned about making up these sorts of lists is that it would be all too easy to begin with a mile-long list of disclaimers. I could explain that no human being, least of all a full-time law student working for a non-paying publication, could ever hope to hear and evaluate all of the music released in a calendar year.
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'Fellowship of the ring' wins with fantasy fans By now it's pretty clear that the first installment of the hotly anticipated "Lord of the Rings" has more than passed muster. It's scored big at the box office and picked up great word of mouth and, amazingly, great reviews as well.
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In the basement of Langdell, behind two solid doors and encased in a metal cage, lies the heart of the Law School's computer infrastructure -- the e-mail server. To the left of the server, a bank of small black hard drives, some of them installed five years ago, sits mostly idle.
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For the past three years, a growing proportion of our community has rallied around the moral standard that Harvard workers deserve pay, benefits and working conditions that reflect their dignity as human beings. Last week's huge outpouring of support for janitors demonstrated that the Harvard community is as mobilized as ever around the demand for a living wage for all Harvard employees.