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LETTERS: School choice, Dems, and debates<br />
This week, readers wrote in to comment on school choice, the inability of Democrats to understand why their party continues to lose at the polls, and the importance of free debate.
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EDITORIAL: Conservatives should shut up about silencing<br />
Among the many criticisms and concerns addressed to University President Lawrence Summers at Tuesday night's town hall meeting, several students complained about a purported "silencing" of conservative students on campus. But is this silencing a reality? Or simply a red herring employed by conservatives?
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Town hall draws student protest<br />
Prior to University President Lawrence Summers' town hall meeting Tuesday, nearly a hundred students gathered on the cold, windy steps of Austin Hall to rally in support of greater student participation in the search for a new dean of Harvard Law School.
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Celebrities address RAP panel<br />
As many Harvard Law School students had their own taste of local celebrity during Parody week, the Recording Artist's Project brought two real-life celebrities to campus last Thursday. RAP is a clinical program devoted to providing legal and other assistance to recording artists.
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OPIA hires new Assistant Director<br />
After interviewing hundreds of candidates, the Office of Public Interest Advising has finally hired its second full-time advisor, Assistant Director Maura Kelly, who joined the Law School's public interest community this week.
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Of death, numbers, and law<br />
Do we only care about American dead? ANNETTE DEMERS suspects that we might. "Why are we only able to empathize when the face of those who suffer resembles our own?" she asks.
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International law and America’s anti-UN prejudice<br />
Responding to Adam White's column last week, AKBAR RASULOV and nine other students write that White's column on the UN wallows in its parochial ignorance about international law.
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EDITORIAL: Where’s the activism?<br />
HLS students have no doubt participated in anti-war activities. But on the HLS campus itself, the anti-war movement has been oddly quiet. If activists are ignoring HLS in favor of bigger markets, that is a mistake. We as a generation have never faced a more decisive moment in our history. How we respond to today's events, and this proposed war in particular, will be a litmus test for our shared future.
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Improbable 2 just plain wack<br />
"I'm willing to suspend disbelief for some action movies," says JENNIFER CHIEN, "but there has to be a limit. Cradle 2 the Grave passed that limit repeatedly."
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The taste of tradition<br />
"When people think of Italian food in Boston, they automatically think of the North End and little else," says EUGENE MAR. "Thanks to 3L Sarah Hsia's recommendation, now I know of a worthy southern Italian trattoria outside of the North End that serves up many family favorites at very reasonable prices."
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Poor execution<br />
"There are many arguments for and against deliberately putting humans to death," writes LYNN LEE. "A movie that commits as many moral, intellectual and aesthetic atrocities as The Life of David Gale should have been dispatched long ago, if not aborted at conception."