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...charge third-year tuition to students who commit to public-service careers. Such measures have encouraged more and more Harvard graduates to use their law degrees to help people who really need legal services, but may not have the cash to pay. The traditional five or six percent of HLS graduates going into public-service law has now doubled to about 12 percent.But even with this new trend, both Ruttenberg and Shabecoff note that to graduates, a position in a private sector job often is easier and has a greater economic payoff: the salary at a typical law firm starts...
...students through honesty and openness; after the final exam, he encourages enrollees to write anonymous questions, which he answers on the course Web site. Questions range from course specific: “How much do you make off of each textbook?” (“4.5 percent of the purchase price... but all royalties on sales to my own students are donated to a charity chosen by the student(s) who achieve the highest score in the class.”) to far more personal: “Have you ever used drugs...
...budget represents a 2.36 percent increase over last year’s budget, with a large proportion of additional funds allocate to personnel-related costs...
...years under the current structure of the CORI, which seals felony offenders’ records 15 years after their release, and 10 years after release for misdemeanors. It is no wonder that, in a study conducted by the Federal Bureau of Justice, 67.5 percent of released prisoners are rearrested for a new crime within three years of release. The CORI effectively serves as a scarlet letter on job applications: inviting censure and exclusion, regardless of the offender’s contrition or rehabilitation. The CORI reform bill currently up for debate in the Massachusetts legislature, proposes to change...
...million displaced, I think that that is the kind of disaster that merits world attention and world action.” These are strong words from a man proposing to end the American military presence in Iraq by the end of next year.By vying for the votes of 60 percent of Americans who believe the United States should make its exit from Iraq as soon as possible, Obama is guilty of the worst sort of pandering. In speech after speech Obama has elevated his opposition to the war into a platform for election. “I opposed this...