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To the One-Ls: Welcome. During your orientation, you may have noticed an unspectacular speech from our Dean, Sideshow Bob Clark. I hope you all were paying attention, because in all likelihood you won't see much more of him in the rest of your time here. You'll see him again when he pops in for a cameo in the Law School Parody, but Sideshow Bob is not known for his visibility among the students.
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What is it about law firm salaries that motivates us to abandon our ideals and dedicate our lives to the corporate environment? Most of us entered Harvard Law wanting to use our legal education to help a specific social group. I imagine that many of our admissions essays reflected dreams like protecting children, initiating human rights campaigns, defending battered women or providing legal services to indigenous clients.
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If you squint, in fact, you might even think you were in Balthazar (after a martini or two). Andrew Jacobs With Air France's Concorde service suspended for the past year, we have all been forced to make some sacrifices. When hopping aboard Concorde to arrive chez Taillevent the same evening is not possible, many have turned to the Boston-area restaurant scene for our French food fix.
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Week Four of the flag football season has come and gone, but the memories will last a lifetime. I wasn't alerted of a "Game of the Week" this time around, so I'm going to start with the week's closest game: the JLPP Patriots (0-5) and the Fightin' Greg Lippers (2-3).
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Everyone around HLS knows what the Ames Competition is. It takes little more than a casual glance at the Law School's catalog to figure out what this venerable moot court competition, which turns 90 this year, is all about (it's on page 85). But the teams remain a relative curiosity.
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The September 11 attacks are no excuse to reinstate racial profiling, Ronald Hampton, executive director of the National Black Police Association, said in an HLS Forum speech Wednesday. Hampton criticized recent moves by politicians and police to allow racial profiling of Arab- and Muslim-Americans as an effective means to stop terrorism, noting that, in peacetime, those same parties have long advocated and practiced profiling of blacks and Latinos.
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The pictures coming in from Afghanistan offer a vantage point from which we might reevaluate or reaffirm some of our basic legal assumptions. For example, we have all heard that oft-cited assertion of criminal law that it is "better that 10 guilty go free than one innocent person go to prison.
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Imagine you are the leader of a political party with the following problems. A poor country in your hemisphere is sitting on enormous oil reserves, which your country wishes to exploit, but the natives do not believe they should live to serve your country.
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Dear HLS Community, I wanted to thank those of you who have engaged in an open dialogue about the content of my October 11th article. Several of the comments in last week's RECORD were clever, insightful and thought-provoking. I also appreciate those of you who want to discuss your viewpoint with me.
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"Come on in. No charge for admission," Benjamin Ferencz '43 told the students streaming into Langdell North before his lecture. "It's worth every penny," he added. Working the crowd for the 20 minutes or so before his talk "Law is always better than war," Ferencz wandered up and down the aisles with a microphone asking students, "What do you want me to talk about?" Some of the students wanted him to talk about his role as a Nuremberg prosecutor after the Holocaust.
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Fenno ran as quickly as he could down Mass Ave., realizing that he was late for his interview. As he passed Three Aces Pizza, he noticed the shiniest Jaguar he had ever seen. Fenno paused long enough to take a look at the car. A bumper sticker read, "Got Sears, Kiss my Ass.
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As a new transplant to Boston and a self-proclaimed serious eater, I was desperately seeking good, fun, affordable food with flair. Tamarind delivered. The exterior sign led me to expect a slightly more "funky" atmosphere than the one with which I was greeted upon entry.