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If there is one thing I learned from Bush v. Gore, it's that my vote matters. If we all vote, it doesn't even matter who wins. Democracy wins. And with that thought firmly in my mind, I approached the wall of personal statements of 1L students running for Law Student Council.
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It had just stopped raining in New Hampshire at 10:30 a.m. Friday, but it was still a wet day as Clifford Ginn '03 was preparing to run to the top of the Bretton Woods Ski Area and back down to the lodge. His 11 teammates watched from the base area as Ginn began what had been described as the "hardest 5K you have ever run.
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Settling some races that were hotly contested and others that were mere formalities, HLS 1Ls, 2Ls and LL.M.s selected representatives during the Law School Council election last week. The winning 1L candidates were: Lucas Osborn and Maria Meginnes for Section 1; B.
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The Law School administration announced the promotion this week of Profs. Elena Kagan and John Coates to tenured positions as Professors of Law. Prof. Rakoff, Dean of the J.D. Program, said of Kagan and Coates: "It's nice to be able to point to two such good teachers as well as such good scholars [for tenured positions].
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As the hunt for terrorists continues in the aftermath of the World Trade Center catastrophe, law enforcement officials are assuring the international community that any accused terrorist brought to trial before an American court would receive a fair trial.
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Porter Square has the finest dining around, and its most renowned establishments are McDonald's Restaurant (no relation to People's 37th most eligible bachelor, Shawn McDonald) and Dunkin' Donuts. My opponent in this debate, the esteemed "Colonel" Parker, with his typical rustic ignorance of good taste, claims that the best restaurant in Cambridge is Chez McDonald's.
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Before embarking on this assignment, I took a cue from my crush, Justice Antonin Scalia, and looked up the work "restaurant." Black's Law Dictionary defines "restaurant" as "a place where meals are served to the public." "Meals" implies more than one of these occasions: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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"I see you have a superlative transcript, and ... but what is this WD?" Ah, the feared interview question for the unlucky students who happened to drop that oversubscribed course just minutes too late. Time to pay the Piper. You begin sweating profusely. "What am I going to do now?" you ask yourself.
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Learning about wine is a relationship. Like any relationship, it takes work. And like any relationship, it's often important to look good in a restaurant. (Yes, I'll retire this lead eventually.) Dealing with wine in a restaurant can be intimidating, even if you think you know what you're doing.
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In "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau argues that, while we have no duty to devote ourselves to the elimination of evil, we must never be "the agent of injustice to another." His refusal to pay a tax that would support theft from Mexicans and Native Americans and enslavement of Blacks was thus not a strategy for effecting political ends, but a withholding of allegiance from a wicked government.
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It's a typical Friday night. People stroll the squares, ignoring the frigid wind and drizzle. It's another Friday we have fought hard for, another denouement to a week of classes that we're happy to have survived. In a few hours people will be hitting the bars, the clubs, the concerts in force.
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Proponents of retribution often overlook key aspects of their theory, as does Ms. Hartline in her article "Retribution is Right." The principle of "an eye for an eye" is a bit more complex than she indicates and achieving proportionality is decidedly more difficult.