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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students take the following classes during their first year: civil procedure, criminal law, contracts, property, and torts. First-year students at Harvard also take an elective in the spring. Most classes last one semester, but some professors prefer to stretch their classes out over the entire year...

Author: By Jennifer Blum, FOR THE HARVARD LAW RECORD | Title: Perspectives on the First Year of Law School | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...Florida. Oh, wouldn't that be nice. The weather in New York is a bit on the chilly side for a good portion of the year, to say the least. During the winter, it is a challenge to eat ice cream. (More precisely, I eat frozen yogurt. While I prefer fro yo, I refer to my dairy treat by its more fattening cousin's nickname because it is more mellifluous...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: The Eighth Wonder of the World | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...colors of the rainbow according to the temperature of my surroundings. If it is not particularly cold, my hands are red. As the mercury plunges, my hands pass through stages of blue, purple, and black. The pain that accompanies the chameleon effect is irksome, which is why I prefer having other people scoop my ice cream to serving myself...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: The Eighth Wonder of the World | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...Breton says American influences have also increased Canadian nationalism, since many Canadians who prefer American culture move to the U.S. "If you're a Canadian, you're by and large a Canadian by choice," Breton says, and much is unique to Canadian culture...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: Canadian Culture Sociology 196 | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

...Having been at a university, I know the workload, and if you can't keep up, you cheat," said bookseller David L. Kessler. "I would prefer that students do without them, but sometimes they provide interesting insights. If you actually learn from the Cliffs Notes, that's not cheating...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Study Aids Still Sell Despite Controversy | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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