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...Cockfighting is quite violent and - for lack of a better word - Osbournesque, as in shockrocker Ozzy Osbourn, not the playwright John Osborne. The first time I saw a gallero stick the bloody head of a wounded rooster in his mouth, suck on it like a popsicle, and then spit out a thick stream of chicken blood, I thought the combination of beer and sun was playing feverish games with my head. Across the arena I saw my friend Jon's face, and he had the same open-mouth-lost-gringo expression that I imagined my face was showing...
Originally a novel by John J. Osbourn '67, The Paper Chase was made into a successful film and then into an unsuccessful and short-lived CBS television series. After several years of reruns on PBS, it was picked up by the cable network Showtime...
...Osbourn, who graduated from Harvard Law in 1970, wrote The Paper Chase as a largely autobiographical portrayal of the anxiety and tension of his 1 L career. In the novel and film, Hart falls in love with the daughter of his arrogant professor, Charles W. Kingsfield Jr., played in the series by John Houseman. Osbourn admits that the show is "not an accurate reflection of Harvard Law School. It's Paper Chase Law School. It's our law school. I like Harvard better, but I'm very fond of the other...
Most law students say that the character of the intimidating Kingsfield, whom Osbourn claims is based on a composite of several of his law professors, no longer haunts the halls of the law school. Most professors don't teach in the Paper Chase manner of calling on people to answer questions in class, they...
According to these part-time boarders, serious practitioners lurk nearby in Harvard Square. "If you want hardcore skateboarding, go to the little triangle behind the T," Osbourn says...