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...three law students expressed confidence in their futures. Susan Estrich, a third-year Law student, said when she entered Harvard, a professor told her that "women just don't excel here." Last spring, Estrich was named the first woman editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review...
...reasons--to meet and work with women who are scholarly and diverse. "I knew it would be serious but not just scholasticism--people may interact or just work as they see fit. It's intellectually comfortable here, almost like being freed up of all administrative work and being a third-year graduate student again," Hill says. And the absence of telephones in the offices of the fellows indicates clearly the atmosphere of hard and individual work the Institute hopes to provide...
...classes of about 25 inmates meet in spartan gray-walled prison classrooms for 90 minutes two nights a week for four months; graduates get certificates. Courses are taught by two-member teams of second-and third-year law students, most of them from Georgetown, who earn academic credit for their work. The young instructors-most have never been inside a prison before-also gain insight about people who really need legal help. Says Jerry Kristal, a third-year student who taught last semester: "At first we had stereotypes of what prisoners were. I learned prisoners are human...
...youthful portrait of Mrs. John Bannister and her son. Another unpredictable talent is that of John Trumbull, a year younger than Stuart and born to wealth (as Stuart was not). Trumbull's father. Governor of Connecticut, recognized his son's precocity and enrolled him as a third-year student at Harvard at 15, then observed: "I am sensible of his natural genius and inclination for limning, an art I have frequently told him will be of no use to him." When hostilities seemed imminent, Trumbull joined the Army, served briefly as aide-de-camp to General Washington...
When Jason Scott Cord, a third-year joint law and business student, went for an interview last fall with the prestigious New York firm of Cravath, Swain and Moore, he told one lie too many. Cord told the interviewer he was a big-time college placekicker, and the interviewer, who knew his football, got suspicious and contacted the University, and the greatest hoax in Harvard's history began to unfold...