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The Ames Award, given to a male and female in the graduating class who exhibited a commitment to helping others, is traditionally picked from a handful of nominations.
“Having read the letters, there are some amazing people,” says Ames Committee Member Avik Chatterjee ’02. “You have no idea what kinds of service people are doing.”
The former Treasury Secretary Summers and Sen, an economics professor at Cambridge University, discussed the challenges of economic development, world poverty, free market economies and human rights before an overflow crowd at the Law School’s Ames Courtroom.
At least some (apparently rational) people don’t think so. Ames Professor of Law Phillip B. Heymann offered me a series of objections to the systemization of torture.
In spite of this sophisticated structure, Clowes keeps the focus on characterization. The various inhabitants include Random Wilder, the eccentric would-be poet laureate; Violet Van der Platz, the insecure, love-lorn teenage girl; Charles, the hyper-articulate and aware sixth-grader; and Mr. Ames, the mono-maniacal private investigator...