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Higher Education
September 6, 2002
Jamienne Studley '75 has been trying to change academic institutions for a long time. Now, as head of Skidmore College, she's finally getting paid to do it.
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Researchers Track China's Web Filtering Policies
September 5, 2002
As part of its continuing efforts to study Web filtering policies of governments around the world, Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is using an "open research" method to examine China's filtering policies. Visitors to the Berkman Center Web site (cyber.law.harvard.edu) can type in the address for an Internet site and learn instantly whether that site is being blocked in China.
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The Stuff That Elections Are Made Of
September 1, 2002
HLS students fill envelopes for Thomas J. O'Connor Jr., a Democratic candidate for U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 1960. Though O'Connor lost, student Democrats got to cheer some winners that year--including Senator John F. Kennedy, who spoke via telephone to an overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre during his campaign for president, according to the HLS yearbook.
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Courting Recovery
September 1, 2002
It wasn't long before newly elected Judge Karen Freeman-Wilson '85 began to know the defendants by their first names--they just kept coming back to her Gary, Ind., courtroom.
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For the Defense
September 1, 2002
War has a way of finding Jim Haynes '83. Just six months after President George Bush appointed him general counsel of the Army in 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, sparking the Persian Gulf War.
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Practitioner of Conscience
September 1, 2002
Amnesty International still fights torture, arbitrary detention, and unfair trials, says Secretary General Irene Khan LL.M. '79, but now it's also taking on hunger, illiteracy, and discrimination.
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The Fire This Time
September 1, 2002
It took Weldon Rougeau '72 only 90 seconds to get himself expelled from college.
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Freelance Diplomat
September 1, 2002
In 30 years of practicing law, corporate bankruptcy attorney David Erne '68 had been in many negotiations--but none like this one.
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Man of Steel
September 1, 2002
When Robert "Steve" Miller Jr. '66 got a call from Bethlehem Steel's board last year asking him to assume the flagging company's reins as chairman and CEO, he accepted in a matter of hours.
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Pension Plans
September 1, 2002
Years before Enron's collapse spotlighted the vulnerability of employee retirement savings, Karen Ferguson '65 was immersed in what she half-jokingly refers to as the "arcane" area of pension law.
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Talking About a Revolution
September 1, 2002
Radio talk show host Juan Manuel García-Passalacqua '62 is urging his listeners--again--to go out and demonstrate. This time it's to stop the U.S. Navy from testing weapons on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
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A Place of One’s Own
September 1, 2002
Roy Prosterman '58 wants people in the poorest countries to own property. Think of it, he says, as an insurance policy for the planet.
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Clark Urges Corporate Ethics in Speech to Students
August 29, 2002
This afternoon, in his annual orientation speech to new students, Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark spoke of the need for "moral courage" among the nation's lawyers and business leaders.
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HLS Changes Its Military Recruiting Policy
August 26, 2002
The following is a memo from Dean Robert C. Clark to the Harvard Law School community outlining changes to the school's military recruiting policy for the 2002-2003 academic year.
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2001-2002 Sears Prize Recipients
August 22, 2002
Harvard Law School has awarded the Joshua Montgomery Sears, Jr. prize to five students for academic achievement during the 2001-2002 academic year. Christian Pistilli of Staten Island, New York; David Landau of Cambridge, Mass.; and Jared Kramer of Atkinson, NH were the first-year recipients. Michael Shah of Muttontown, New York and Michael Gottlieb of Hyattsville, MD were the second-year recipients.
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Survey Examines Careers of Black Harvard Law Grads
August 1, 2002
A new survey demonstrates that black Harvard Law alumni have achieved impressive professional success despite the fact that discrimination-based both on race and gender-remains an obstacle in today's workplace. The research, conducted by the Law School's Program on the Legal Profession, also indicates that black Harvard Law alumni devote a larger amount of time to pro bono work than the typical American lawyer.
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Southern African Tax Institute Established
July 19, 2002
On June 23, the Harvard Law School International Tax Program joined with the University of Pretoria, University of the Witswatersrand, and the University of South Africa in establishing the Southern African Tax Institute in a ceremony at the University of Pretoria.
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Berkman Center Examines Saudi Arabian Filtering
July 16, 2002
Researchers from Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society have released a report concluding that the Saudi Arabian government maintains an active interest in filtering non-sexually explicit Web content.
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At Your Service
July 1, 2002
Nicole De Sario '03 clears tables after lunch at the CASPAR Emergency Center for the homeless in Cambridge, as part of Harvard Law School's inaugural Springfest Volunteer Service Day on April 20. About 300 students took part in the event, which also included work at the Charles River Earth Day Cleanup, Habitat for Humanity, and the Greater Boston Food Bank.
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The Sorrow and the Hope
July 1, 2002
Benjamin Ferencz '43 had an opportunity Eli Rosenbaum could never have--to bring Nazis before a criminal tribunal. In 1947 Ferencz served as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial of 22 SS officers, including six generals, accused of mass murder.
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A Conversation with Joy Covey
July 1, 2002
Joy Covey '89, a graduate of the J.D./M.B.A. program, recently wrapped up four years at Amazon.com, where she worked as the chief financial officer and strategist for the online retail giant.