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HLS Conference Explores the Future of Ground Zero
October 4, 2002
On Monday, October 7, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School will tackle the future of ground zero. With countless visions for the space, the conference will examine how a consensus can be reached. A wide range of panelists will present some of the financial, legal, cultural, spiritual, and design constraints involved in redeveloping the site. The event will begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Arco Forum at the Kennedy School of Government.
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Lakhdar Brahimi Receives Great Negotiator Award
October 2, 2002
Today the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School honored Lakhdar Brahimi with its annual Great Negotiator Award. Brahimi, the United Nations secretary general's special envoy to Afghanistan, has also headed special U.N. troubleshooting missions to hotspots such as Yemen, Liberia, Sudan, Nigeria, South Africa, the former Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and Haiti.
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A Conversation with Domenico De Sole LL.M. ‘ 72
September 24, 2002
As president and CEO of the Gucci Group, Domenico De Sole LL.M. ' 72 has taken the well-known fashion house from the brink of collapse to its current position as an $8 billion industry titan.
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Testimony: An Essay by Yvonne M. Anderson ’96 (’02)
September 24, 2002
Why I Left Harvard Law School . . . and Why I Came Back Again
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Their Politics Is Local
September 24, 2002
While many young people disdain the political process, some recent HLS alumni seek elective office to help their communities
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Catch a Rising Star
September 24, 2002
Five years ago, Jennifer Granholm '87 was a political unknown. Now she is working nonstop on the campaign trail to get people to know her, believe in her, and make her the next governor of Michigan.
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Patricia S. Schroeder ’64
September 24, 2002
Known for her tart tongue and her tears (when she announced that she wouldn't run for president in 1988), Patricia Schroeder knew how to get things done in Congress, including the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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Michael S. Dukakis
September 24, 2002
When he was an HLS student, Michael Dukakis ran for his first office and was elected a member of the Brookline, Mass., Town Meeting.
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John B. Anderson
September 24, 2002
Once a reliable Midwestern Republican, John Anderson changed his views and then changed the dynamics of modern presidential races with his third-party candidacy in 1980.
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Caspar W. Weinberger
September 24, 2002
Caspar Weinberger is, in many ways, the modern-day author of the Art of War.
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Book of the Times
September 24, 2002
Most of us accept our experience of time as “natural,” when in fact it’s shaped by society and its laws, says Professor Todd Rakoff, author of what may be the first book on the topic.
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A Night at the Dragapella
September 24, 2002
They say you can be anything you want with a Harvard Law degree.
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Bottomless Wits
September 24, 2002
Trying to guilt trip a burglar when you catch him red-handed in your apartment is not a good idea, says Kathleen Tarr '95, especially if you're half naked.
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Weather Report
September 24, 2002
When the World Wide Web first reached buzzword status in the mid-1990s, corporate presence on the Internet was comparatively small.
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Food Fight
September 24, 2002
The new battle against fast food has found an important ally in Richard Daynard '67, president of the Tobacco Control Resource Center at Northeastern University School of Law.
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This Goose Ain’t Cooked
September 24, 2002
At least you're alive.That's what Sydney Altman '93 thought when friends began complaining about graying hair, sagging buttocks, dormant libido, and various other afflictions that beset people of a certain age--her age, that is.
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The Haunting of Hillsborough House
September 24, 2002
Former Harvard Law student John Bickford still hangs around his family home, though the Hillsborough, N.H., farmhouse where he grew up is now a bed-and-breakfast, his parents are dead--and so is he.
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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.