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To the Harvard Law Class of 2012 and Overachieving Graduates Everywhere

Ron Davis | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Religion, Harvard Law School, Justice, Graduation, Family Values, Public Service, Class of 2012, College News
Ron Davis

Hard work can be satisfying and success feels good. But I urge you to pursue a harder goal than the many mountains you will certainly summit. Accomplishments matter, but are nothing without love, morality, family, belonging and intimacy.

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WATCH: Melissa Harris-Perry Issues Bold Defense

Posted 03.12.2012

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MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry took some time on her Saturday show to discuss what she called a "manufactured controversy" that erupted around Presid...

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WATCH: Video Of Young Obama At Harvard Protest Surfaces

The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Obama Racism, Andrew Breitbart, Barack Obama Racism, Obama Breitbart, Derrick Bell, Race, Barack Obama Race, Obama Harvard, Barack Obama, Obama Video, Obama Race Speech, Video, Andrew Breitbart Obama Video, Barack-Obama-Harvard-Video, Harvard University, Barack Obama Harvard, Bv-Politics, Racism, Harvard Law School, Obama Harvard Law School, Politics News

Before Andrew Breitbart's unexpected death, the conservative blogger and journalist had promised to release video footage of President Barack Obama th...

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Want Your Name On A College Bathroom? Get Ready To Pay

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: College Selling Bathrooms, College Sells Bathroom Rights, Harvard Law School, Harvard Falik Bathroom, William Falik, Falik Men's Room, College Sells Bathrooms, College News

Egged on by unlikely jokester Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, a well-endowed Harvard Law School alumnus recently made a $100,000 donation to his al...

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Remembering Derrick Bell

Keith Boykin | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Equality, Harvard Law School, Barack Obama, Herman Cain, Books, Occupy Wall Street, Derrick Bell Death, Racism, Race, Gay Marriage, College News
Keith Boykin

The first black tenured professor at Harvard Law School and the first African American dean at a non-black law school, Bell was legendary. He had worked with Medgar Evers, worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and literally wrote the book on Race, Racism and American Law.

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Demanding A Better Education For Children In Foster Care

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: The Rhode Island Foster Parents Association, No Child Left Behind, Angelo McClain, Participant Media, Education, Fostering Media Connections, Chidl Welfare, Cwla, Daniel Heimpel, The Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, Christine James-Brown, Waiting for Superman, David Kirp, Marian Wright Edelman, The United Way of Pioneer Valley, Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, Nclb, Slidepollajax, Esea, Harvard Law School, The Stuart Foundation, The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, Western New England College, Foster Care, Education Reform, Education News
Daniel Heimpel

The education of children in foster care is one step in a long, needed march towards a future where we put all children first.

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On the Road to Educational Equality

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Angelo McClain, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Child Welfare, Senator Mary Landrieu, Mitchell Chester, Children, Sixto Cancel, No Child Left Behind, Orphans, Fostering Media Connections, Daniel Heimpel, Participant Media, Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, Waiting for Superman, Education, Department of Children and Families, Marta Minow, Harvard Law School, Senator Chuck Grassley, Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, Foster Care, Education News
Daniel Heimpel

Town Hall at Harvard Law School highlights the intersection of foster care and education.

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Should Obama Show His School Transcripts?

Bernard Starr | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Barak Obama, Isaac Newton, Intelligence, Columbia University, Harvard University, Donald Trump, Pablo Picasso, Ivy League, Thomas Edison, Harvard Law School, Albert Einstein, Grades, Richard Branson, Winston Churchill, School Transcripts, Birther Issue, Dyslexia, Obama Administration, Education News
Bernard Starr

Once again Trump is demanding proof -- this time he wants to inspect Obama's school transcripts. Should we be concerned? I think not.

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Due To Ban, Trans Man At Harvard Law School Cannot Serve In U.S. Military

The Harvard Crimson | Sara Joe Wolansky | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Military Transgender, Harvard Law School, Harvard, The Harvard Crimson, Military Transgender Policy, The Crimson, College News

Despite his past military service, Jack is not eligible for JAG because he is a trans man. Since his honorable discharge in 2007, Jack, who insisted o...

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Donald: The Duck

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Birthers, Opec, President Barack Obama, Celebrity Apprentice, Harvard, Cbs, Barack Obama, Obama Birth Certificate, Columbia University, George Stephanopoulos, Cnn, Donald Trump, New Hampshire, Oil, Harvard Law School, New York Times, Abc, China, Republicans, Politics News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

I was having dinner with two clients when a large man with a larger orange coif approached our table with his associate. "Excuse me," said the dark s...

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Dalai Lama's Political Replacement Elected

AP | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: India, Dalai Lama, Lobsang Sangay, Dharmsala, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan-Government-in-Exile, Tibetans, Harvard Law School, Tibet, Jamphel Choesang, Dharmsala India, World News

DHARMSALA, India -- Legal expert Lobsang Sangay has won an election to become head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, taking over the Dalai Lama's po...

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Laura Gottesdiener

Arizona Birther Bill Is Unconstitutional, Legal Scholars Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Gottesdiener | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Arizona Legislature, Birthers, Harvard Law School, Arizona, Arizona Immigration Law, Laurence Tribe, Arizona Guns on Campus, President Obama, Politics News

2012 presidential candidates could have one more challenge to getting their name on the ballot: proving to Arizona’s secretary of state that they ar...

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Cops Are Missing the Bad Guys While Profiling the Black Guys

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, Police, Crime, Lani Guinier, Criminal Justice, Drugs, War on Drugs, New York City, New York, Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Black History Month, Human Rights, Center for Constitutional Rights, Slavery, Harvard Law School, Discrimination, Constitution, Books News
David A. Love

In America, black men are regarded as a criminal element, and racial profiling is a practice that goes far beyond the justice system. It is culturally ingrained and normalized.

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The Future of Foster Care: Are We Too Cheap to Keep Children Safe?

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fostering Media Connections, Abuse, Disproportionality, Orphan, Bias, Racism, Harvard Law School, Elizabeth Bartholet, Maltreatment, Daniel Heimpel, Foster Care, Neglect, Impact News
Daniel Heimpel

If making children safe truly requires changing the overarching ideology, then juvenile judges, social workers, children's rights attorneys and social scientists cannot do it alone.

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Rotary International Names Dynamic New General Secretary

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rotary International, Conflict, Sri Lanka, Leogane, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sustainable Development, Marshall Scholar, Oiww, Tsunami, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jim Luce, John Hewko, Rotary Foundation, Harvard Law School, Oxford University, India, Baker & McKenzie, Polio, World Health Organization, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Orphans International Worldwide, Usaid, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Impact News
Jim Luce

There are 1.2 million Rotarians in 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas, and they couldn't have a more capable general secretary than John Hewko.

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PLAN ForYourArt: December 22-January 5

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Hoeber, Holidays, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Moca, Latin America, Vertigo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chris Mburu, Los Angeles, Iannis Xenakis, Bootleg Theater, Janice Gomez, Alfred Hitchcock, Jennifer Arnold, Los Angeles Arts Month, Patti Lee, L.A. County Arts, Jeffrey Soros, Hammer Museum, Arts, Harvard Law School, Jacques Tati, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

Learn about how artists from Latin America explored perception and sensation in a guided tour of the exhibition Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space.

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Craving Attention at Harvard Law

Anthony Amore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anthony Amore

Two Harvard Law School students have filed a law suit in federal court complaining that the use of full-body imaging scanners and enhanced pat-down procedures is a violation of their Constitutional rights.

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Harvard Book Store Launches Bicycle Delivery Program

GalleyCat | Jason Boog | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harvard Book Store will now deliver all local orders for as little as $5, six days a week, using emissions-free vehicles. And all in-stock orders plac...

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Peace Through Moderation: U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative's Work with Pakistan at Harvard Club

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

The Peace Through Moderation (PtM) project of the Alliance for Peacebuilding hosted last week an engaging and exclusive reception recently featuring t...

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Elizabeth Warren Was Paid To Be An Expert Witness In Cases Against Bailed-Out Banks

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

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While acting as a government-appointed bailout watchdog, Elizabeth Warren, whom President Obama appointed this month to lead the creation of the Consu...

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Elizabeth Warren To Speak At Financial Insiders' Dinner

Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, a federal bailout watchdog, and a likely nominee to head the new Consumer Financial Prot...

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Why Johnny can't think critically

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Issues, Ethnic Profiling, Ethnicity, Texas-Black-Studies, Arizona, Queer People of Color, Harvard, African American, Gay Students, Black-Studies, Gay Rights, Harvard Law School, Public Education, African-Americans, African Americans, African-American Issues, Governor Jan Brewer, Latinos, Women, Queer, Department of Education, Queer Studies, Gay, Harvard Business School, Ethnic Studies, Texas, Education, Harvard University, Black Studies Programs, College, Texas Board of Education, Higher Education, Gays, Harvard-Gay-Studies, College News
Irene Monroe

School is now back in session, and our children's minds are impressionable vessels. We trust their teachers to take precious care of them. But can we...

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Looking for a Harvard Man?

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College, Dating, Online Dating, Harvard Law School, Harvard, Harvard Business School, Feminism, Gender, College News
Isabel Kaplan

A new dating service for male Harvard grads boasts that it gives women "total control" over the online dating process. An online dating system that promotes female empowerment? Not so much.

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Entrepreneurs: Not Who You Think They Are

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berkman Center Harvard, Women Entrepreneurs, Harvard Law School, Mark Zuckerberg, Vivek Wadhwa, Harvard, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Rachel Sklar, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Ycombinator, Impact News
Morra Aarons-Mele

If I say "entrepreneur," whose image flashes into your head? The obsession with venture capital funded entrepreneurship, the big exit, the genius nerd working 24-7 on code is misplaced, and it's really holding women back.

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Elena Kagan Called Pro-Military By Senator Scott Brown

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harvard Law School, Senate, Military, US Military, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Supreme Court, Dadt, Gop, Massachusetts, Elena Kagan, Recruiters, Republicans, Nomination, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Scott Brown says Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has persuaded him that she supports the military, despite her de...

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