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Students also perform their clinicals at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, the Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services Center, local District Attorney's offices, Tenant Advocacy Project, and numerous other community advocacy organizations...

Author: By Belinda Lee, FOR THE HARVARD LAW RECORD | Title: Perspectives on Life at Harvard Law School | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...clannish. We jokingly call ourselves "members of the tribe" (MOTs), as if to remind us of our tribal origins. But we are not a tribe, a clan, or even an ethnicity. Jews comprise many ethnicities, as a visit to Israel or even to [some] neighborhoods of Brooklyn should make plain. This persistent tribalism makes us less welcoming of Jewish converts than we ought...

Author: By Alan M. Dershowitz, | Title: Surviving in a P.C. World | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...giving the FBI more power until it gets its house in order and proves that it can live in the boundary of existing laws." That's a long way from the days when the FBI drafted the bills it wanted passed and delivered them to the Hill in plain Manila envelopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FBI: UNDER THE MICROSCOPE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...school primarily on the examples offered in Australia and the U.S., both of which he has visited and whose centrist politicians he knows well. In Australia, Blair was charmed by Robert Hawke, who had said when he was Prime Minister that "you have to be an idiot or just plain blind with prejudice not to understand that you've got to have a healthy and growing private sector if you're going to look after the majority of the people." Blair's version goes like this: "It is the public interest that is important. What counts is what works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST LIKE BILL? | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...lack of female professors at Harvard offered fewer choices, or that standards for sexiness differ by gender." We at Dartboard would like to suggest some alternative explanations, less rooted in deep sociological phenomenon. First, perhaps Martin Feldstein is just really darn sexy. Or, maybe most female professors are just plain ugly...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: INDY-TURNED-GALLUP POLL | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

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