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Before Steiner joins the firm, he'll take thesummer off to relax. The lawyer is likely eagerlyawaiting the vacation after a busy spring thatincluded meetings with minority students about aPeninsula flyer that used words that manypeople found offensive and a controversy over aprobe of racial harassment in the security guarddepartment...
Rudenstine joked that the 50th reunion classhelped him put everything in perspective. Thepresident said he can relax at dinner with theclass, because, "whatever the Law School may bedoing to me, it ain't doing nothing to them...
ARTFUL EQUIVOCATIONS are even worse; lynx-eyed sly rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
RATTLED BY TWO SUBSTANTIAL EARTHQUAKES AND their rumbling aftershocks the previous weekend, Californians had reason to relax a little by last Wednesday. The ground had stopped shaking. And then, at midafternoon, came the seismic news: a Superior Court jury in Simi Valley, a bedroom community northwest of Los Angeles, had acquitted on all but one count -- and deadlocked on that -- the four white L.A. policemen on trial for beating and otherwise mistreating black motorist Rodney King...
With its top seed and accompanying first-round bye, Harvard has ample time to relax and hone its skills before it plays in the final Four next weekend in Bethlehem, Penn...