Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...optive nature of the Fainsod Committee is more explicit if one accepts, for the moment, the procedural validity of student power, per se. A review of the Committee's development thus far reveals that it is not an honest step in this direction; moreover it was never intended...
...years. They have made it into one of the honoraries and are busy with other activities. As for those in the middle and bottom of the class, the school offers little encouragement for development over a two or three year period. Last March, the editors of the Law Review took note of "the feeling that the fate of a man's legal career is irrevocably determined during two weeks of June in his first year of law school...
...year students. It impresses upon those who wish to distinguish themselves (and this includes the majority of any class) that first-year exams are the most crucial part of law school. This is a major reason why the competition is so in-ordinately fierce. If success means making Law Review and making Law Review means being near the very top of the class-positions that cannot be occupied by everyone -- most first year students, by their own definition, are going to be failures for the first time in their academic lives...
Lack of first-hand knowledge of these organizations makes it difficult for us to do more than suggest how new members might be selected. The Law Review might choose all new members by means of a writing competition. (The Yale Law Journal now recruits all members by means of a writing competition, in which students not elected receive course credit for their work.) The Review might also consider having more than one competition a year, and expanding the number of members it elects...
Many experts remain convinced that, in nuclear war, the offense would always have the advantage-that any new defensive device could easily be neutralized by improvements in attack missiles. Contending that the Pentagon's review was inadequate, Kennedy announced that he was organizing an independent study by outside experts. This week the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee will begin hearings on ABM. Both inquiries can be counted on to generate still more controversy in what has already become one of the most heated-and most crucial-defense disputes in many years...