Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great asset not only to law students who wanted to use their degrees to work in the public interest, but to large numbers of underrepresented people and public causes around the country. Over my three years at the Law School I attended many seminars organized by the public interest placement department. I probably never would have heard of D.N.A. if it were not for Ron; I certainly would not have managed to find the funding for the project I wanted to pursue here if Ron had not been at Harvard...
...convinced that a significant number of my classmates who are now working in corporate law firms will at some point in their career consider government, non-profit or public interest law. The programs Ron created and the counseling he provided to anyone who stopped by his office will surely lay a foundation for people to exercise that vision. Will the students who are at Harvard now have the same opportunity...
...public interest counselor cannot be judged by the number of students who opt for public interest jobs right out of law school; many factors make the private sector an easier route to take. But public interest jobs are the hardest jobs in the legal world to find and to get, even coming out of the top schools. By not providing the encouragement, guidance and direction of someone like Ron Fox, Harvard Law School will miss the chance to serve many of its students who want to contribute to the unmet needs of society. The law school fulfilled an important social...
...hope that Dean Clark will reconsider his decision to eliminate this valuable department. James E. Cohen Harvard Law School, Class...
Cheney's announcement was greeted by much of the U.S. foreign policy establishment with cynicism. The Defense Secretary, it was said, had not really had a change of heart; the cuts had more to do with the requirements of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law than with the opportunities posed by Gorbachev. True, but beside the point. What mattered to the Soviets was that the U.S. body politic as a whole now accepted the proposition that Kremlin policy had changed in ways that justified American reciprocation...