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Nationalist Party frontman and Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate Ma Ying-jeou is set to assume Taiwan’s top executive office in the wake of his victory in the country’s recent presidential elections. Ma, a 1981 HLS alumnus and the former mayor of Taipei City, won Taiwan’s March 22 election by a 17 percent margin. His party, considered more favorable to a rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) than the rival Democratic Progressive Party, will face challenges in reestablishing relations with the Mainland. HLS professor and Director...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taiwan Elects HLS Grad | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...Britain really is to become a better place for its children, it will have to acknowledge the roots of its crisis. That means focusing on helping kids more than on punishing them. A start might be listening to children themselves. Kids Company alumnus Dan-Dan Walker is proud to report that he hasn't been arrested for a year and a half. One of nine children born to parents with drug problems, his first arrest, at 7, was for stealing baby milk and disposable diapers for his siblings. Now 18, he learned about Kids Company seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Mean Streets | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...Senate from 1969 to 1981, blasted the American media for refusing to take his campaign seriously and accused corporate America of backing candidates who would bend to its will. At this point, Gravel is the only other active candidate for the Democratic nomination besides Harvard Law School alumnus Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—though he has not yet won any delegates. “If you don’t have any visibility, you can’t get any contributions,” Gravel said. “Since there is no one in the corporate world...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gravel Speaks at Emerson | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...group’s director. “I think we were the young people she talked about.” In her half-hour speech, Clinton emphasized her health care experience, contrasting her own policies with those of her democratic rival and Harvard Law School alumnus Barack Obama. “I think health care is a right, not a privilege,” she said. “That is at the root of my distinction with Senator Obama. My plan will cover everyone—his plan will not.” Clinton added that her plan...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton Detours to Boston on Way to R.I. | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

After graduation, Harvard’s numerous alumni spread themselves all over the vast expanses of the globe. Yet after more than three decades, one very important alumnus will return home to Cambridge. The appointment of Cass R. Sunstein ’75—considered the most widely cited legal authority in the United States—to the faculty of Harvard Law School last Wednesday was received with vibrant enthusiasm. Dean of the Faculty of Law Elena Kagan even proclaimed that “If I could add only one person to the faculty, Cass would be that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Hats Off To Kagan | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

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