Word: courting
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Telegraph Avenue, the city's most famous thoroughfare, is dotted with used bookstores and homegrown coffeehouses. A block east is People's Park, originally a vacant lot seized from the university, so sacred to radicals that even the idea of the construction of a small volleyball court in 1991 led to accusations of tyranny, sit-ins and arrests. The city's parking meters refer to "Indigenous People's Day" rather than Columbus...
Professor of Law Charles Fried traded the bench for the lectern this summer, giving up a seat on the state's highest court for a post at Harvard Law School. In addition, the law school announced this Wednesday that Fried has been appointed to its recently endowed Beneficial Professorship...
Fried returned to the law school's faculty July 1 after serving for four years as an Associate Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Before his stint on the court, Fried taught in various positions at the law school, beginning with an assistant professorship in 1961. He became the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence...
...School's gain is the Supreme Judicial Court's loss, and Massachusetts Governor A. Paul Cellucci is in the process of selecting nominees to fill the slots vacated by Fried and fellow justice Herbert Wilkins. Of the 15 nominees, four are Harvard Law School graduates...
...troops to actually prosecute and punish violators. In practice, that dilutes the the code, because we?ve already seen that different countries don?t apply the same penalties or strictness in applying codes of conduct." Consistent standards could be upheld, of course, by the proposed International Criminal Court of Justice currently under discussion in the U.N., which would create a permanent, independent war crimes tribunal. That would be if the U.N. could persuade Russia, China and the U.S. to accept the creation of such a court...