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...Still, it's hard to find lawyers involved in public-interest work who aren't optimistic about the long term. They believe that even under the current system incremental progress toward the protection of rights is possible. "Sometimes I feel like I'm storming an impregnable fortress," says Guo, the women's advocate. "But we have had a few concrete victories." Last year, Guo and her colleagues successfully lobbied to eliminate a regulation forbidding female graduate students from becoming pregnant. "We can't change everything overnight," says scholar Teng Biao. "But even the leaders recognize they must reform the system...
...company propose conventional coal plants on the scale of TXU is pretty disturbing for shareholders," says Dan Bakal, director of Electric Power Programs at Ceres, a coalition of investors, environmentalists and public-interest groups. Miner-tough Mike McCall is having none of that argument. Asked if he's worried about the increasingly coal-fired environment his son, a high school freshman, will grow up in, he answers quickly, "No, because we are reducing emissions too. That's the beauty of what we're doing." The coal debate, it seems, is just getting fired...
...ensure that those who wish to pursue public-interest positions are not impeded by the summer savings expectation. Students who work in unpaid public service internships during the summer are more likely than most to enter lower-paying public interest careers after college, and it is precisely the nature of these careers that will make it more difficult for them to write-off a $2,000 loan.The concerns of David H. Garcia ’09, a student on financial aid, reflect the pressure that the summer savings expectation places on students interested in service-oriented summer opportunities...
According to Plum, “Harvard students are just so profoundly advantaged...that they get access to a network of real stars in the public-interest community who can advise them on this process, and it helps enormously...
Myers said her work in public-interest law arises from the value she places on volunteer work...