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...their legal studies to real world problems. While the program is widely acclaimed as a success, its viability was recently put in jeopardy when the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC) decided to consider prohibiting all first-year and some second-year students from participation. These students make up the vast majority of PLAP participants and this decision will severely undermine the organization’s ability to provide this service...
...four weeks." Indeed: a band of congressmen tried (unsuccessfully) to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho; kidnap gangs ran riot in Manila; power blackouts were predicted for vast stretches of the country. And the day Poe became a candidate, a shadowy group of soldiers released a manifesto threatening a coup if Arroyo didn't clean up the government...
...country." And on the same day, Agrese 95, a Czech "white power" band, played before some 150 people in central Bohemia, singing lyrics like: "Enough tolerance ... Your future is ovens and gas chambers." Most incidents like these do not make headlines. Although they would be denounced by the vast majority of Europeans, they are often not recognized by police - and their perpetrators aren't necessarily hard-core extremists. Different countries have different definitions of hate crime, and different ways of punishing offenders. But most agree that hate crimes are prompted by what the victim represents - a religion, race, nationality...
...rainy morning in October, a veteran oil executive named Jean-Noel Dairon showed up at the plush Hilton Hotel in Milan. Thanks to his 30 years at Total, now France's largest oil company, Dairon, 56, brought with him a vast store of knowledge about refining and marketing - but he wasn't there to drill down into it. Instead, he stood up in front of 100 managers of the company's Italian subsidiary and asked them some tough questions about the feel-good business trend of the year: corporate social responsibility. "Is this a new era of capitalism?" he asked...
...blowing interactions with senior faculty members, or courses that have changed the way in which I look at the world. The standard line, of course, which you hear is that the most amazing thing about Harvard is your fellow students. Well, I partially buy that, but not entirely. A vast number of my peers are brilliant, either in the classroom or at their chosen extracurriculars. I have also found a large number to be decent, funny and thoughtful people. But while I look forward to holding on to many of the good friends I have made here, I found...