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The popularity of the HLS-New York City bus led to noise complaints, competition from other operators, and problems with city-licensing officials. Now, after months of no busses, HL Central says that it's getting things worked out and hopes to have the service up and running by Thanksgiving.
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Aharon Barak, Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, and Harvard Law School Prof. Charles Fried discussed their contributions to the November issue of the Harvard Law Review Monday evening at the annual Law Review Supreme Court Forum.
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Although there are as many as six million of them in the United States, prisoners and the system in which they exist often seem invisible to the American public. Students gathered on Tuesday night to hear an accomplished panel of three discuss race, class, gender and the prison-industrial complex.
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Columnist's note: This column cannot reasonably be construed to incite a race riot. If you're a 1L, feel free to keep reading. This column is about Bordeaux, a region in France that makes what some people (like myself) consider the best wines in the world.
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But for the complete absence of attitude, it could have been a Chelsea gallery opening, one of those early evening gatherings of avant-garde haircuts, art scenesters and chardonnay in New York's West-side outpost of hip art galleries. Instead, it was a Friday in the South End.
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Nick Will, editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business School's weekly newspaper The Harbus, resigned November 6 after an HBS administration official verbally warned him that a cartoon in the newspaper's October 28 edition was both inappropriate and disrespectful.
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The Defense Department's photograph of Camp X-Ray detainees, shackled and kneeling, has provoked a glut of editorials and speculation around the globe. Leading the hyperbole was the U.K. description of Guantanamo as "a scandal of international proportions.
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It's becoming a February tradition: Sometime in late January or early February, 2Ls and 3Ls run home and rip open their white envelopes from the Registrar's Office to stare, befuddled, at a row of GNRs [Grade Not Reported]. It's even becoming a kind of HLS lingo: "I got GNR'd.
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Bert Huang will follow in the footsteps of Judge Henry Friendly and Dean Erwin Nathaniel Griswold through the next year by guiding the Harvard Law Review as its next president. Huang emerged victorious as the 116th Law Review president after an election Saturday.
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The Administration is "seriously considering" a faculty recommendation of hiring an additional full-time staff member to the Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA), said Michael Armini, director of Commun-ications for the Law School. Whether the recommendation will ultimately be adopted is uncertain, and the proposal comes at a time when a sagging economy and changes to the first-year program have put strains on the budget.
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Reading from his book "Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine" before an audience of about 120 at the law school on Monday, Raja Shehadeh described the experience of watching Israeli bulldozers ravage ancient vineyards while establishing a settlement in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
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A legal education - especially a gold-plated Harvard one - is often described in instrumental terms, as a "ticket to success." Even mid-recession, a high-paying law firm job is considered a virtual sinecure, almost a right more than a prize. But for people who believe that law school presents an opportunity to right wrongs, to advance ideologies and to alter prevailing paradigms, taking that prize means a painful choice between pay and principles.