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  • Hearsay: Summer 1999

    September 25, 1999

    “Outside of this context of shared assumptions, e-mail functions like bad poetry where any meaning can be put into the e-mail depending on what you’re…

  • 87th Ames Explores How Far Media Can Go

    September 25, 1999

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer ’64, Laurence H. Silberman ’61 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit presided over the 87th Annual Ames Moot Court Competition in the case of Ride-A-Long Productions, Inc. and Ames Broadcasting Co., Inc. v. Suzanne Rogers and Michelle Rogers.

  • The U.S. Senate’s New Lawyer

    September 25, 1999

    "So far, so good," says Patricia Bryan ’80 of her job as legal counsel to the U.S. Senate, a position she has held since June 1.

  • An Active Lawyer’s Life

    September 25, 1999

    Tom O’Donnell, former managing partner of Ropes & Gray, has forged a remarkable career that combines lawyering with civic leadership, charitable endeavors, and hard work for Harvard.

  • A New Kind of Legal Aid Office

    September 25, 1999

    Joel Feldman’s four-attorney private legal aid office in Springfeld, Mass., recently sued a rental agency that was coding its listing sheets to identify landlords who didn’t want to rent to Blacks and Hispanics.

  • Competent to Testify?

    September 25, 1999

    Many young children who understand the difference between truth and lies are nonetheless deemed incompetent to testify in court, according to developmental psychologist Tom Lyon ’87, "because lawyers ask them questions that are too abstract for their stage of development."

  • Day and Night in N.Y.C.

    September 25, 1999

    Banker and community builder Deborah Wright '84, Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern '57 and longtime Legal Aid lawyer Stephen Pokart ’65 all make their living in N.Y.C.

  • At Large in L.A.

    September 25, 1999

    Belinda Smith Walker ’71, executive director of Girls and Gangs (G&G), and partners in law and public activism Stephen English ’75 and Molly Munger ’74 are all Harvard alumni residing in L.A.

  • An Afternoon in D.C.

    September 25, 1999

    Wilma A. Lewis ’81 is the new U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

  • Touring Charleston, Mass.

    September 25, 1999

    Charlestown Lacrosse founder Zack Lehman '98 gives the Bulletin a tour of Charlestown, Mass.

  • Koh’s Human Rights Agenda

    September 25, 1999

    "My job is to try to advance and increase human freedom, through reporting, persuasion, criticism, and advocacy," says Yale Law School Professor Harold Hongju Koh ’80, who became assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor in November 1998.

  • Morning News From Mora

    September 25, 1999

    A familiar face to TV viewers around the country, Antonio Mora LL.M. ’81 became news anchor for ABC’s Good Morning America in January.

  • Letter from Hong Kong

    September 25, 1999

    David Smith ’61 is on leave as vice-dean of Harvard Law School, serving for two years as acting dean of City University of Hong Kong School of Law.

  • All My Love, Filly

    July 28, 1999

    The Law School now holds the voluminous correspondence Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ’04 sent to his sister Estelle Frankfurter over a span of 31 years.

  • Swing Dancing for Public Interest

    July 28, 1999

    Danny Levin ’00 and Elizabeth Pipkin ’01 dazzled the packed Ames Courtroom with their spins and dips during this year’s sixth annual Public Interest Auction, at which swing dance lessons were among the items up for grabs.

  • Revisiting Fuller’s Famous Spelunkers

    July 28, 1999

    Were four entrapped spelunkers, whose hunger ultimately drove them to eat the fifth member of their group, guilty of murder, and should their sentence—death by hanging—be upheld?

  • Do Something

    July 26, 1999

    Early on April 13, a fleet of yellow school buses pulled up to the Law School, bringing 200 Boston high school students to a town meeting led by HLS Professors Lawrence Lessig and Bruce Hay ’88.

  • Hanson and Co. Go Hollywood

    July 26, 1999

    The first and last annual report from Class Action CEO Heather Thompson ’00, “the hardest-working and lowest-paid CEO in the country,” according to Professor Jon Hanson.

  • Profile: Robert Weary ’48

    July 25, 1999

    Amid the quiet hills and streams of northeastern Kansas, Robert Weary ’48 has forged a dynamic dual career: running the Junction City law firm his father founded, and buying and building up companies, especially in the cable TV and radio industries.

  • A Walk on the Wired Side

    July 25, 1999

    Our stroll down the technology trail at HLS begins with a computerized insurance law exercise and ends with Y2K.

  • Toward Equitable Child Care

    June 25, 1999

    Professor Lucie White’s spring seminar Child Care, Development, Policy, and Women’s Work: Comparative Perspectives culminated in a late-April colloquium that brought together scholars, activists, and students for discussion of emerging issues involving women’s employment, social justice movements, and state policy regarding the unpaid or undercompensated care-taking —especially of young children—that women typically do.