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GREG LIPPER took a break from instigating the Federalists to check out the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (or MPRE). He found that most of the licensing requirements have little to do with effective representation and more to do with establishing cartel-promoting hoops that would make the folks at DeBeers proud.
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With the University of Michigan affirmative action cases pending, LEE STRANG wonders why liberals are so in love with racial and ethnic diversity. He feels that the benefits proponents of affirmative action site are far outweighed by the costs involved in discriminating against more qualified students.
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America is facing "one of the most challenging moments the United States has faced since World War II," former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger '71 told an audience of students yesterday afternoon. Berger was invited to campus as the inaugural speaker in a series that is designed to bring leaders in international affairs to HLS.
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"Healthy democracies thrive on disagreement," writes JONATHAN SKRMETTI, "and any idea advanced deserves to be thoroughly critiqued in the interest of finding the best solution." He feels that rigid adherence to the "blind dogma" surrounding affirmative action will do nothing to forward this debate.
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ANGELA WU writes that the absence of a strong artistic presence in the HLS community should give us pause when we consider how a good political education necessarily cultivates artistic sensibilities. "At the very least, we can devote time to appreciating the arts, especially by supporting the few arts groups brave enough to poster the Hark."
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A large crowd of students, professors and Cambridge residents gathered in front of the Science Center yesterday to protest Bush administration plans for an upcoming war in Iraq. RECORD photographer EZRA ROSSER was there to capture the scene.
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With rumors abounding about possible final candidates in the search for a new Law School dean, the Law School Council hosted a town hall forum on Tuesday with University President Lawrence Summers in order to permit students an opportunity to express their concerns and questions about Dean Clark's replacement.
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"People practically never experience the great events of history with their own eyes," wrote Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo. They experience them only through the "200mm or 300mm lens" of the mass media. With this insight, Pontecorvo captured one of the most important anti-imperial conflicts of the twentieth century by filming The Battle of Algiers.
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This week, Fenno chats with Federalists over freedom fries, indoctrinates LL.M.s with Dean Richardson, has her ear chewed off by President Summers. Only Tylenol with codeine can make this day better.
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This week, the V&V guys take some time to answer their readers important questions, including "What's the deal with synthetic corks and screw caps," and, "Can I have a shout-out in the wine column?"
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"There's an unmistakable tension in the air these days," writes JEFF LEVIN. "Winds of war, rumblings of fear and uncertainty somewhere in the great American gut, spasms of anguished dissent in flashes now and then on college campuses and in the tirades of the occasional actor -- you get the feeling that we stand on the edge of an era where we as a society have yet to sort out just quite who stands where and why."
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"Divorced and lonely, Peter wanders into a legal chat room and meets who he thinks is a demure, thin, blonde fellow attorney. He's in for a surprise when his internet date turns out to be heavier, darker and more aggressive than he expects." ANIKA SIMMONS writes that Bringing Down the House makes almost every movie mistake possible.