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To Serve and to Honor
September 24, 2002
On Flag Day this year, when Irene Englund's ashes were placed at Arlington National Cemetery, soldiers fired a rifle salute, a bugler played taps, and an American flag was presented to Englund's daughter Julie.
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Risky Business
September 24, 2002
Not many people have to specify that they don't think it's a good thing that cigarettes kill people. But W. Kip Viscusi mentions it nonetheless because his work--and its subject matter--can be oversimplified, he says. Not to mention vilified.
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Symposium in Honor of Professor Arthur von Mehren
September 24, 2002
On Friday, September 27, Harvard Law School will host a symposium exploring law and justice in a multistate world. The event will be held in honor of Emeritus Professor of Law Arthur Taylor von Mehren's 80th birthday. The symposium will feature discussions on each of Professor von Mehren's four areas of expertise: comparative law, choice of laws, international jurisdiction and recognition of judgments, and international arbitration.
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Ken Burns to Speak about Race and the Civil War
September 19, 2002
On Friday, September 20, award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will give an address on race and the civil war. This speech will begin at 2 p.m. in the Langdell South classroom of Harvard Law School. This event is free and open to the public.
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Conference Examines Accounting Reforms
September 18, 2002
Beginning on Friday, September 20, the Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems will bring together policy makers from the United States and Japan to explore reforms in accounting and the operation of capital markets in the post-Enron world. The three-day event, "The Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Japan and the United States," will be held at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, Virginia.
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HLS Program to Study Labor and Worklife Issues
September 16, 2002
Harvard Law School has announced the creation of a new research program, the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. The new program will bring the number of research centers at the law school to 18--with areas of focus ranging from Internet law to Islamic legal studies to international taxation. The Labor and Worklife Program will examine changes in labor markets and employment law; and analyze the effects of unions, business, and governments on the workplace.
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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.