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Soldiers Field Athletic Area -- Currently home to most of the University's athletic facilities, the athletic area has the advantage of bordering the river and being fairly close to Harvard Square. Dean Clark warns that moving here might raise the ire of Harvard athletic community.
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In the first month after he was named University president, Lawrence Summers put the Law School on notice that the school could be moved, even over the faculty's objections, to a new location in Allston. The Law School administration took Summer's new policy seriously, and, on November 5th, Dean Robert Clark appointed Professor Elena Kagan chair of a committee to look into what such a move could mean to the school.
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One-L Brian Blais won a city council seat in his hometown of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, November 6, when he placed third out of 14 candidates. "It was a complete shock," Blais said. "I thought I'd scrape onto the Council with the sixth or seventh seat, if at all.
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I found much to agree with in the columns that J.R. Parker and David Min wrote in the November 8th issue -- liberals have certainly lost their way, in part because they are not "communicating a coherent and engaging message," and no one can seriously deny that the two-party system is a "scary joke.
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Hussein shows staying power Osama still most wanted man It is obvious that the most desirable bachelor in the world right now is none other than that man of the hour, Mr. Osama bin Laden. Unlike the pudgy, mustachioed Saddam Hussein, Osama bin is every woman's dream.
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A period passed, and as a nation we slowly began to understand the harm caused by the witch hunt we today refer to as McCarthyism. The McCarthy era severed much of the left from the realm of the politically legitimate, for years effectively suppressing certain schools of political thought by damning them with the inaccurate label "Communist.
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"If you have five Jews and kill three Jews, how many Jews do you have left?" One may think that this quote is derived from some Nazi-era literature. Actually this is a quote taken directly from a math book approved and published by the Palestinian Authority, taught by Palestinian teachers and recited by Palestinian students across the West Bank and Gaza.
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Harvard Law men are bizarre creatures, indeed. Popular opinion suggests that we're a breed of man near the top of our game. We've got gold-plated educations and astronomical earning potential. We've got bright futures and, if we choose to accept it, a chance to make a real difference in the world.
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The little black doll stares with an impish, big-toothed grin. Its lips are broad, slathered in vaudeville red. Its skin is jet black, blacker than any human, the more to contrast with the reckless smirches of red. The blackface doll is one of the central metaphors of Spike Lee's "Bamboozled," the director's film about the abuse of African-Americans in the media.
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In an article that teaches much about the constraints education imposes upon thought so as to bring it into sufficient conformity with the commands of the powerful ("The fog of war in law," Oct. 25), Arkadi Gerney demonstrates the rather perverse limits within which the ostensibly skeptical and concerned are to allow themselves to operate should they want to participate in the esteemed "debate" about our choice to condemn what knowledgeable observers suggest could be upwards of several million Afghans to death.
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Let's not let our flag be a fad We like to think that the U.S. stands as a symbol of freedom, but the citizens of Massachusetts do not enjoy the basic freedom to choose their representatives in the state legislature. Massachusetts ranked dead last in the nation in competitive elections in 1998 and 2000.
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Let each new hero come Seeking the golden apples and Atlas. He must wrestle with me before he pass Into that realm of fame Among sky-born and royal: He may well throw me and renew my birth But let him not plan, lifting me off the earth, My elevation, my fall.