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...Simpson and Pharaoh of the Old Testament have in common? As of last Monday, both have benefited from the legal counsel of Alan Dershowitz. The Frankfurter Professor of Law showed off his debating chops by defending the notorious anti-Semite before an anything-but-impartial jury in a mock trial staged at Harvard Hillel. In a partially scripted exchange peppered with Old Testament allusions and political wisecracks, Dershowitz stood his ground against prosecuting attorney Austryn Professor of Jewish Studies Jay Harris, who accused Pharaoh of committing crimes against humanity. Dershowitz retorted that Pharoah could not be convicted because he lacked...
After a few thousand years, the jury is still out. As Jews are midway through observing the holiday of Passover, famed defense attorney and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz faced off against Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris in a mock trial of Pharaoh last night. The two men debated Pharaoh’s guilt on charges of persecuting and enslaving the Jews and attempted genocide but neither side won. Harris, who teaches Moral Reasoning 54, “‘If There Is No God, Then All Is Permitted,’: Theism...
Harvard’s Mock Trial ‘A’ team landed second place in the annual American Mock Trial Association National Championship, losing to the University of Virginia by one point in a tie-break decision—the closest competition in league history. The eight-member team still managed to come home from the competition—which took place April 7-9—with more “All-American” awards for individual performance than any other team. At the final trial of the competition, the Harvard team prosecuted the kidnapper...
...reason for complacency. Under the definition adopted by the U.S., CID occurs when an interrogation technique “shocks the conscience.” But CIA Director Porter Goss testified in March that water-boarding—a classic form of torture in which suspects are subjected to mock execution by drowning—is a “professional interrogation technique.” Timothy Flanigan, former deputy White House counsel who at the time had been nominated as deputy attorney general, refused during testimony in September to say that water-boarding constitutes inhumane treatment. If even water...
...democratized just-in-time celebrity culture. Club Libby Lu, a fast-growing chain of mall stores owned by Saks, provides the setting and accessories for elaborate makeover parties for girls as young as 4 at a relatively reasonable $21 a head. They can strut down a catwalk, don mock Madonna headset microphones and pester their parents to buy Role Model perfume or a LOCAL CELEBRITY T shirt. It would be easy to bemoan the trend as the end of childhood or the corruption of innocence. But the hunger for recognition doesn't end with the acquisition of a driver...