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Alumni Focus
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All the Right Moves
October 1, 2001
"I'm just an amateur," insists Harold Dondis '45, writer of the Boston Globe's chess column for the last 37 years. In fact, Dondis is so modest that it's not until ten minutes into a discussion about his favorite game that he offers, matter-of-factly, "I did beat Bobby Fischer one time."
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Lessons of the Heart
October 1, 2001
Eugene Wade graduated from Morehouse College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. But he almost flunked out of high school. And that experience drove him to start his own charter school company, helping kids like himself--poor minority children in inner cities.
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Academic Honors
October 1, 2001
While no HLS grad made it to the finals of the recent Harvard University presidential search, three alumni have attained the top title at other universities.
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Firm Justice
October 1, 2001
In 1998 Pamela Coukos '94 became an associate at a firm that barely existed.
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Endurance Test
October 1, 2001
Jamie Metzl '97 took the inspiration where he could find it. After swimming 2.4 miles, biking 112 miles, and in the middle of a 26-mile run, his body was screaming at him to stop.
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The Big Picture
October 1, 2001
If Diana Derycz-Kessler '91 ('92) made movies, she would be shooting two films simultaneously, bankrolling another, and throwing in a cameo appearance to boot.
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A Senatorial Privilege
October 1, 2001
Like most Democratic staffers on Capitol Hill, Leecia Eve '90 is appreciative that Senator Jim Jeffords '62 decided to bolt from the GOP and tip the Senate balance of power to the Democrats.
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Law of Supply and Demand
October 1, 2001
You wouldn't expect Rob Chesnut '84, the deputy general counsel to the largest online marketplace in the world, to be spending his day worrying about lawn darts.
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The Next Chapter
October 1, 2001
By the time Michael Fredrickson '82 turned 50, he had taken on many roles: Rhodes scholar, draft resister, English professor, farmer, attorney, lumberjack, auto mechanic, folk singer, and owner and performer in a singing telegram service.
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Political Views
October 1, 2001
Regardless of how people feel about the outcome of the presidential election controversy, most would agree that the openness of the proceedings helped ensure greater legitimacy.
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Consumer Advocate
October 1, 2001
Ira Burnim's clients are not like the rest of us. They don't want any help. They're just not worth the money, the time, the trouble. They're better off locked away, out of sight.
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Earth First
October 1, 2001
In 1993 Dick Roy '70 walked away from his position as a high-powered attorney, intent on never again collecting a paycheck. Roy had decided, after more than 20 years practicing law, to cash in his six-figure salary to save the earth.
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The Mumia Chronicles
October 1, 2001
Sometimes it seems that Daniel Williams '86 is still on the case. When he talks about a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal and the defense strategy and the public relations campaign and the possibility that a client he represented for nearly ten years could be executed, Williams speaks like an advocate girded to continue the fight of his career.
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The Biggest Game in Town
October 1, 2001
Tom Gallagher '69 doesn't gamble, but he certainly knows gaming. The president and CEO of Las Vegas' Park Place Entertainment, the world's largest casino and resort company, has been at the helm for just one year, but he is in many ways a veteran.
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The French Connection
September 1, 2001
HLS Celebrates Second Worldwide Alumni Congress in the City of Light.
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Balancing Acts
September 1, 2001
After an editor at Oxford University Press read Unbending Gender, a book her own company published, she quit her job. In a way, it was the ultimate compliment for the author, Joan Williams '80, a professor at American University's Washington College of Law.
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Talking Liberties
September 1, 2001
Burt Neuborne '64 has often been in the public eye--leading the charge for ballot access in New York State, arguing for Holocaust reparations, presenting cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A Conversation with Jenö Staehelin
July 12, 2001
Jenö Staehelin LL.M. ’65 is the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations. A member of the HLS Dean’s Advisory Board, Staehelin last fall hosted more…
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Harvard Law School is one of the few things that I have encountered in life that’s as good as it’s cracked up to be. For…
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Harvard Schools Host First JD/MBA Reunion
July 1, 2001
They called themselves orphans, pearls without a string, and the lost graduates. But on April 5 and 6, these wayward souls found a home, when…
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The Voters’ Advocate
July 1, 2001
Scott Harshbarger '68, the president of Common Cause, is charged with reinvigorating the venerable watchdog organization.
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In the Money
July 1, 2001
Many alumni have made a fortune for their clients and themselves in the investment world. Five of them talk about how they do it--and why stock market fluctuations don't keep them up at night.
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A Lodge Out West
July 1, 2001
Credit: Courtesy of Popperfoto/Archive Photos Mae West: An HLS man is hard to find. In the land of the bean and the cod (that’s Boston…
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Power to the People
July 1, 2001
Matthew Freedman ’99 is all charged up. Just ask him about the deregulation of California’s utilities. He’ll tell you in passionate detail the tortuous story…
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The Times According to William Proctor
July 1, 2001
Credit: Christoph Niemann William Proctor ’66 recognizes the New York Times’s preeminence as the country’s newspaper of record. That’s why he reads it every morning,…
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Bush Taps HLS Grads for Administration
July 1, 2001
Alberto Gonzales, White House general counsel, with President Bush. A new president may occupy the White House, but Harvard Law remains well represented at the…
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The Record Breaker
April 27, 2001
The former chief of Arista Records, who has shaped the careers of music legends Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana, and Whitney Houston, launches a new record label.
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Guilty, by Reason of HLS Degree
April 27, 2001
Credit: Christoph Niemann A Harvard law degree is not always advantageous. In fact, for Nguyen Ngoc Bich LL.M. ’73, it was downright dangerous. Largely because…
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Adopting a Cause
April 27, 2001
Credit: Christoph Niemann Frederick F. Greenman Jr. ’61 LL.M. ’63 fights for a right almost everyone takes for granted. All people, he believes, should be…
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The General at Peace
April 27, 2001
As her tenure as head of the Justice Department ends, Janet Reno '63 reflects on the criticism and controversies--and what she did with her Harvard Law School education.
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A Stamp of Honor
April 27, 2001
Credit: AP Photo/USPS It didn’t take long for the U.S. Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee to deliver Claude Pepper ’24 to the top of its list.
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A Catalyst for Change
April 27, 2001
Credit: Joe Jackson Michael Rosenbaum ’98, Catalyst founder (second from left), with John Shropshire, Richelle Parks-White, and Cheryl Hagans, Catalyst graduates and CitySoft employees. This…
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One-L of a Good Time
April 27, 2001
Although Vaughn Carney’s new novel is about Harvard Law School students, his characters are not chasing paper. That’s not, after all, what most people go…
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An Independent Woman
April 27, 2001
Credit: Richard Chase A fellow at HLS during the academic year, Jennifer Braceras ’94, argued the conservative’s case as a columnist for the Boston Glove…
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I’ve Got a Secret
April 27, 2001
Credit: Christoph Niemann What better person to consider George W. Bush’s drunk driving arrest than Jim Koch ’78, founder of and pitchman for Boston Beer…
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Alumni Bid for Congress
April 27, 2001
While Ralph Nader ’58 grabbed the spotlight in the presidential race, several other HLS alumni also sought elective office in the fall. Perhaps the most…
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Takingachance@a.com
April 27, 2001
Despite the dizzying decline of the dot-com world, several alumni are determined to survive and thrive in their own digital start-ups.
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California Dreamin’
April 27, 2001
Students Go West for New Careers Credit: Diane Digda Sitting in the Charles Hotel’s lobby before yet another job interview, Norm Cappell ’02 imagines the…
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Class Mates
April 1, 2001
Credit: Scott Jones For Carolyn Cochran Clark ’68 and L. David Clark Jr. ’68, the seating chart in their 1966 commercial transactions class proved to…
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A Matter of Principle
September 28, 2000
Avery Dulles ’40–’41 knows that the law is important. But throughout his life he has focused on something even more important to him.
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Profile – Bennet Boskey ’39: Not Shy, Not Retiring
September 28, 2000
As a student at HLS, Bennett Boskey ’39 took the name of one of his courses literally. In Conflict of Laws, with Professor Erwin Griswold…
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Charlotte Armstrong Named Harvard Medalist
September 28, 2000
Charlotte Armstrong ’53 was awarded a Harvard Medal at the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on June 8.
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School Hosts First Celebration of Black Alumni
September 28, 2000
HLS hosts A Celebration of Black Alumni to honor the more than 1,600 black students who have graduated from the School.
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The Captain of the US v. Microsoft
September 28, 2000
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson '64 is a blunt, plain-speaking, and physically imposing man who knows how to run a tight ship. From the moment he drew judging duties for United States v. Microsoft, Jackson was determined to keep one of the 20th century's largest antitrust cases running swiftly and on course.
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Alumni Create Immigration Clinic Fellowship
September 28, 2000
Erik Gerding ’98 knew that fundraising, even for a good cause, is never easy. But as it turns out, when the cause is the Harvard…
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At Loggerheads
September 28, 2000
Credit: Christoph Niemann For Minneapolis-based lawyer Stephen Young ’74, a tree is just a tree. Yet for others, he contends, trees are sacred objects. Last…
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Law School Graduate Serves up Kosher Haikus with a Side of Chutzpah
September 28, 2000
You were expecting Shakespeare? We hope not, because this is a story about a different kind of bard. Call him the bard of oy vey.
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Stooge Searching
September 28, 2000
In its storied history, Harvard Law School has produced presidents, senators, knights, CEOs, professors, attorneys general, and Supreme Court justices. But only now can the…
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James Vorenberg [1928-2000]
July 18, 2000
Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, 72, the ninth dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate associate special prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on April 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest.
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A Novel Idea
July 18, 2000
Most law school papers don't get glowing reviews from the New York Times Book Review. But most law school papers aren't like Mohsin Hamid's.