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Just as the media attention that Harvard University received during last spring's Living Wage protest was dying down, another controversy exploded when the Boston Globe reported that the Harvard Crimson had signed a $45,000 contract to have two-dozen Cambodian workers working at 40 cents an hour typeset old copies of their issues for a digital archive.
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The entering class at HLS is always talented. That's no different this year, but the group of students fearing the first day of Civil Procedure is slightly less diverse than last year. The composition of this year's entering class of 530 showed a 4.3% decrease in the number of female students who now make up 44 percent of the 1L class.
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During a discussion of Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co. v. American Cyanamid Co. in Prof. Prichard's Torts class last semester, liberals and conservatives alike expressed concern that, if a chemical company were made strictly liable for spills of a chemical it produced, the price of products would ("artificially") go up.
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Pity the soul who watches a cinema blockbuster set at Harvard Law School and believes the campus actually looks that good. Law students who watched this summer's "Legally Blonde" noticed more than a few differences between the celluloid version of campus and the real deal.
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Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, screenwriters of the HLS fairy tale "Legally Blonde," say they have made a business out of being hip. "There's some sort of weird fusion of both our sensibilities put together that equates hip," Smith said. "And it's not really manufactured by us, it just sort of happens when we collaborate.
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Fenno sat in the OCS 2L forum staring at a bead of sweat forming on Mark Weber's forehead. It was hard to focus on exactly what he was saying over the sound of students rambling about their summers and the start of the year. The women next to him were discussing a particularly disturbing misadventure.
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Learning about wine is a relationship. Like any relationship, it takes work. And like any relationship, sometimes you have to cheat. Why cheat? Because no one knows everything about wine, and in certain situations you have to do your best with limited information.
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by Dave Bitkower " . . . the restaurant doesn't have to pay actual chefs." I would like to begin this review by apologizing for calling Davis an "ignorant slut" in this space last year. As Davis has demonstrated in numerous contexts, he is not ignorant; furthermore, I have been advised that the word "slut" is inappropriate for the RECORD.
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Who do you want to decide what goes in your food? The Hark chef? I didn't think so. You're talking about someone who puts a pound of kale in every ounce of clam chowder. Besides, what else do you have to do? Study? Subcite for another journal? Unlike that outline you're trying to make, cooking gives you results -- fast.
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For whatever reason, you decided to come to Harvard Law School. Welcome. Some of you have arrived in these not-so-ivy-covered halls fresh out of college, still holding on to your fraternity key chains. You're worried that law school is somehow going to be radically different than undergrad, and you won't know how to deal with it.
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My home is Alaska, the Last Frontier, where individualism is the paramount value and the capital is inaccessible by car. I began shooting guns at age five and grew up with Reagan as king. I attended the most liberal high school in Alaska and arguably the most conservative university in Texas.
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I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the Class of '04 and to reintroduce the Law School Council to all returning students. It is the duty of the Law School Council to project the student perspective to the faculty and the administration. Accomplishing this duty depends on the ability to both gather the student perspective and then successfully articulate it.