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...have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis." HAROLD PINTER, British playwright, in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature...
Enter the energetic and ambitious Professor Harold H. Koh ’75, who is now the dean of Yale Law School. Spurred by a varied group of Yale law students—including a rebel and a Rhodes Scholar—Koh filed suit against the U.S. in a Brooklyn federal district court. He argued that the Haitians had a right to counsel and that the government was illegally denying him access to his clients. The Justice Department struck back with the same argument that had convinced the Atlanta appeals court...
...worked until Oct. 1997. He left the profession to pursue writing, and late the next year, he started to work on his first book. Not surprisingly, “Storming the Court” is immersed in law, focusing on the protracted legal battles that now-Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 and a shifting band of students fought against the elder Bush and Clinton administrations on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay. The book began as a tale about America’s occasional betrayal of its age-old reputation...
Directed by Harold Ramis (Focus Features) 1 star “Thank you sir, may I have another.” What college kid can forget the immortal wit of “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” which was co-written by Harold Ramis? The esteemed Mr. Ramis than went on to direct “National Lampoon’s Vacation” (1983) and “Caddyshack” (1980), cementing his sterling reputation. He even wrote “Ghostbusters.” More recently, Ramis has directed...
...fussily heading to grab some water bottles from the courtesy table. Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator”), all business, makes a bee-line for her chair, though her presence hardly goes unnoticed by the score of mostly male college journalists around the room. Director Harold Ramis (“Caddyshack,” “Groundhog’s Day”) surveys the scene and remarks to no one in particular, “I want to sit at the middle of the table.” But as the individuals settle down in their chairs...