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...Changes of this magnitude have not swept HLS for 130 years, according to institutional historian and visiting HLS professor Daniel R. Coquillette. The school’s last dramatic overhaul occurred in 1871, when former Dean Christopher C. Langdell instituted the Socratic and case study methods—which would be copied by professional schools around the world?...
...behavior and brash enough to run for President in 1984 and 1988, garnering millions of votes from the multi-ethnic constituency he dubbed the "rainbow coalition." In the aftermath of last year's presidential campaign, when he crisscrossed the country to help produce the massive black turnout that nearly swept Al Gore into the White House, his claim to the throne had never seemed more secure...
...gentlemen, for 10 years I've had to get up and walk across the room every time I wanted to fast-forward through the sad parts in On Golden Pond, but the SL-8000 had my VCR begging for mercy in just under 10 seconds. That did it. I swept all my now superfluous remotes off the coffee table and threw them into a shoe box in the back of the hall closet...
From the minute they took office, rumors of discord between Jac and Bill have swept the hallways of headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. There has been talk of shouting matches between the rich brat and the corporate master. Nasser and Ford hate that and vehemently deny they have ever had a real falling out. "This company has always loved to form camps around its top players," says Ford. "We're trying to avoid that...
TIME.com: Silvio Berlusconi's center-right Forza Italia party looks to have swept to a decisive victory in Italy's election. Why has the country's political preference swung back from the left to the right...