Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote came after a two-and-a-half year legal battle, during which Harvard fought the union's right to represent the workers. When the National Labor Relations Board found in favor of the union organizers, Harvard mounted a publicity campaign to persuade workers the union would not act in their interests. Apparently, Harvard was persuasive. But District 65 organizers said this summer they plan to try again in a year, when they are entitled to hold another election...
...most painless" or "least painful"--Turow says he came to Harvard to meet his enemy. Who is the enemy? Good question. For most of One L, Turow wanders around that point, never quite explaining the theme that's supposed to tie the daily experiences together. Is it the legal system as it sustains class society and the state? Is it Harvard Law School as it breeds privilege and promotes inequality? Just what enemy prompted Turow, who apparently considers himself a left-winger from the late '60s, to enroll...
...examine what that system means for those who have not attained the pinnacle. His only attempt at such critical evaluation comes in the middle of the book, when he describes a speech by Ralph Nader. Nader asks whose law is being taught here, who benefits from the current legal system. "How many sharecroppers," Nader asks his Law School audience, "do you think sue Minute Maid?" For a few hours, Turow says, he was convinced that Nader was right; he could use his education for a political purpose, to help the downtrodden rather than to do the down trodding...
...that Turow thinks life at the Law School is perfect. But his criticisms are mild, centering on its institutional dislike of change and its ties to traditional legal education. One is forced to ask why he came to such an ivy-covered school if he wanted a looser kind of place. The Law School has many of the flaws that undergraduates complain of at the College: distant, overly august faculty members, unnecessary pressure, obnoxiously self-assured classmates, and all the other hallmarks of a school that is a little bit too preoccupied with itself. The Law School has other problems...
...Cambridge Planning Board is expected to make its recommendation to the City Council, the only governing body with the legal power to make a change in the zoning map, next week...