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...year 1908 gave birth to some notable characters: Bette Davis, Thurgood Marshall, and Lyndon B. Johnson, to name a few. This weekend, Harvard celebrates the 100th birthday of a notable character on its own campus, the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club. To commemorate HRDC’s long history as well as its evolving role on Harvard’s campus, a number of shows and activities will be open to the public this weekend during their Centennial Celebration. “HRDC’s personality changes a lot from semester to semester, year to year. Without a theater department...
...fact, the students’ efforts may have paid some dividends: Randall L. Kennedy, a Yale Law School graduate who had clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, won a tenure-track position...
...Kagan, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, now holds the Charles Hamilton Houston professorship, named for the legendary civil rights attorney—and mentor to Marshall—who is known as “the man who killed Jim Crow,” according to Manegold...
...constitutional law? CRS: After law school, I worked for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice, which focused on constitutional questions. I also clerked for Thurgood Marshall and Benjamin Kaplan. Originally, constitutional law was the glamor field of law teaching. I thought that it would be really great if I had a chance to get involved in an area that helped define the nation’s understanding of itself and possibly make a contribution. [...] It was endlessly exciting and an area in which if you figure something out you could help the system and that would...
...What was clerking for Thurgood Marshall like? CRS: It was an adventure. There was frequent drama because there were cases involving abortion, voting rights, the meaning of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and more. Marshall himself was larger than life—not self-important. He was full of amazing stories about presidents and civil rights leaders and great figures in American history—many of whom he actually knew, such as the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Marshall was one of the world’s best storytellers and I would say that every...