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To become a successful New York lawyer, an icon in international law, is usually enough of a career for one lifetime. Long hours, unexpected crises among clients and few vacations in such a high-stress profession frequently lead firms to award extended vacations to senior partners—intended as...
In 1980, Cox became chair of Common Cause, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C. The HLS faculty made Cox an honorary member of the Order of the Coif, an historic group that recognizes significant contributions to the legal profession, in 1991.
No one is saying that any of this is easy--the folks in the Weight Control Registry appear to be working harder at maintaining their weight than those who have never had a weight problem. But the conventional wisdom among experts that 95% of all dieters are doomed to regain...
Venture capitalists are the NASCAR racers of entrepreneurship, injecting fuel--private investment dollars--into new companies that are exciting but may come apart at high speeds. It's a high-risk profession. They have driven important new technologies to market, creating new jobs and new industries. Apple Computer, eBay, biotechnology...
There are precious few Vietnam veterans in the three branches of the federal government. That absence permeates through all elements of our society from the faculty in Harvard University (student deferments personified thirty-five years after) to business, non profits, foundations, the legal profession, physicians, etc.