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Under a cloudy sky in front of Langdell Library, as the mingled scents of fresh-cut grass and perfume wafted through the air, the former presidential adviser took his audience of graduating law students and their proud parents on a journey through law's past, present and future...
Almost 100 years ago, on January 8, 1900, The Crimson published a front page story titled "A Brief Summary of Growth and Changes of the Century." The one-column article stated that "the beginning of the year 1900 has suggested a comparison of the present Harvard with the Harvard of one hundred years...
Recent signs, however, seem to indicate that the Ad Board, in its present state, is not adequately equipped to handle particular matters, especially when it is forced to step out of its proclaimed "educational" role and engage in substantive fact-finding. A case last spring involving sexual assault is one such instance; the women who brought forth the charge wrote, after the proceedings, that "the [Ad Board] system doesn't work. It is flawed. It is archaic and it is not made to deal with cases of sexual assault...
Other institutions may lose students to Harvard, but they present a formidable challenge in drawing famous politicians, entertainers, writers and scientists to speak...
Vote-rigging, though, may not be necessary for the country?s current rulers to maintain their grip on power. The new president will be appointed by a parliament composed of the 462 legislators elected at the polls, together with 38 appointed by the military and 200 nominated by the present military-backed government. From the initial count, the ruling party is drawing 20 percent of the vote, which would bring it ?- under the stacked-deck electoral system ?- within a whisker of holding on to power. Add to that an opposition vote split between Megawati?s secular Indonesian Democratic Party...