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Chez Henri<br />

While often overlooked by the Harvard crowd, Chez Henri (located across the street from North Hall) is a charming restaurant that receives constant raves from Boston foodies. Chef Paul O'Connell fuses French and Cuban influences to create dishes that differ from standard bistro fare.

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Paradise Lost<br />

During the 1960s and 1970s, growing environmental awareness led to the passage of this country's landmark environmental laws, a bureaucracy to administer them and a greater emphasis on environmental factors in administrative decision making generally. While current scientific knowledge demonstrates that we must go much further than any of those laws do to address the many threats to health, safety and welfare that our unsustainable consumer culture creates, there is little question that these laws produced dramatic changes.

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Ball Game : Disney Knuckleball<br />

Dennis Quaid is soaking wet. Rain fills every inch of the air surrounding him; rivulets of it run swift and steady through the many creases in his tattered face. Baseball caps are better shade trees than umbrellas, as Quaid's proves by yielding to the shoulder-bound spouts that arise at regular intervals on its surface.

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Vino & Veritas<br />

My last column. Wow. I've been writing this thing on and off for the past three years, and now it's about to end. I'll miss having a campus-wide platform that comes with virtually no editing. And although what was said about the column in the Parody is probably true, I hope you've still laughed at some of the jokes and perhaps even learned something.

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Nesson says Rakoff suggested he remove himself from teaching 1Ls<br />

Days after stepping aside for others to teach his Torts class, Professor Charles Nesson now says he was encouraged to do so by J.D. Dean Todd Rakoff. In an interview with the RECORD, Nesson also called on the administration - particularly Dean of the Faculty Robert Clark - to state publicly that the move was not designed to discipline him.

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Top Honors<br />

Top Honors: Beating out 225 other teams for the top spot in the National Trial Advocacy Tournament, an HLS team is the first to take the top award

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Off Target<br />

Off Target: Taking his shot at HLS' Target Shooting Club, Daniel Swanson says the group should aim for encouraging a balanced debate on gun control

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Spring Cleaning<br />

Spring Cleaning: In a day of volunteering, 300 students cleaned the Charles, taught citizenship and took their stress on office furniture

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Too cheap to meter?<br />

Clifford Ginn points out the dangers inherent in President Bush's plan to increase America's reliance on nuclear power. The administration's energy policy calls for an expansion of the nation's nuclear energy capacity.

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Letters: War on terror at HLS long ago<br />

GAIL J. HUPPER, Assistant Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, writes in to inform The RECORD that the "sprawling American anti-terrorism campaign" reached Harvard Law School very early.