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...briefs and oral arguments. In the competition, students argued on a fictional case concerning the legality of juvenile curfews. The case, McNeil v. Lu, questioned the detainment of two young boys accused of violating the Ames Juvenile Curfew Act. The arguments focused on whether the act infringed the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. While the details of the case were fictional, the key issues reflected real legislation enacted previously by several states and the District of Columbia. The contending arguments focused on whether the Constitution protected the right to free movement and whether minors could claim such a right...
...those listening to Summers’ words, less than 20 percent came from families in the bottom half of the national income distribution. The “problem of equal opportunity” that Summers spoke of was right in front of him. How the College has subsequently marketed HFAI epitomizes its struggle to maintain Harvard’s dual identity. Byerly Hall, home base for Harvard’s undergraduate admissions operation, must walk a fine line between accessibility and exclusivity in its efforts to recruit middle- and low-income applicants for the initiative...
...promoting the program, Conant evoked Thomas Jefferson’s idea of a “natural aristocracy of talents and virtue” and the need to provide equal opportunity to intellectually capable citizens, regardless of social background. Conant tied the expansion of Harvard’s student body to “the welfare of the nation,” as he wrote in his memoir, “My Several Lives...
Harvard’s janitors will also receive several days of vacation during the winter recess or an equal amount of time off at another point during the year and six to twelve sick days, depending on seniority...
...LENNY BRUCE PERFORMANCE FILM Modern stand-up and (in the Jon Stewart mode) sit-down comedy is inconceivable without Bruce, who, before his 1966 death from a heroin overdose, smashed political icons and broke language barriers with equal daring and wit. In this 1965 filming of one of his last sets, Bruce is clearly addled by drugs and depleted by the series of obscenity cases he had to fight. But his mind still worked with a jazzman's improvisatory genius; the hipster fireworks he launched retain their explosive impact. And, man, was he funny...