Word: scholl
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There's nothing as good for the sole as a comeback classic. When Dr. Scholl's Exercise Sandals debuted in 1948, the wooden slip-ons were promoted as a means to flex the foot, strengthen the arch and tone leg muscles. In the 1970s they peaked in popularity, not as an orthopedic shoe but as inexpensive hippie footwear. Today the sandals with the trademark gold buckle and unmistakable staccato ticking sound are back. "Sales are up 630% from last year," says Alan Johnson, a buyer for Shoes.com "It started in January as a very metropolitan craze. Now they've spread...
...that person may be. As future lawyers, we may be called upon to represent clients accused of opprobrious behavior, and it is our duty as lawyers to represent them to the very best of our ability, even if we are personally disgusted by their conduct. That law student Matthias Scholl has made an utterly reprehensible statement is undeniable, but his actions do not disentitle him to representation, nor do they make his advocate responsible for his actions...
Just ask Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60. When Nesson offered to defend Scholl in a mock trial, he encountered objections nearly as vociferous as the initial clamor. BLSA demanded that Nesson be publicly censured and barred from teaching first-year classes, and Nesson agreed to step down from teaching all but the final lecture of his torts class this year...
...anger over Nesson’s proposal makes one wonder whether objective discourse is possible at all when race is concerned. BLSA’s demand that Nesson be censured simply for wanting to ask whether Scholl deserves punishment implies that race-related disputes should be resolved by suppressing debate and unreflectively condemning anyone involved in the controversy...
...eyebrow-raising that HLS administrators seem willing to acquiesce to these demands. According to last week’s Harvard Law Record, Scholl was referred to the administrative board. (“We have a policy that e-mails should not be anonymous,” says HLS Dean Robert Clark—as though what Scholl wrote had nothing to do with it!) And although Nesson says his decision to step down—which he made in discussions with Dean of the J.D. Program Todd Rakoff ’67—had “a collaborative...