In Massachusetts Senate race, Khazei bets on grassroots

The pace of the short race to get on the ballot for the special election to Massachusetts’ vacant U.S. Senate seat is accelerating to a full sprint. Two Harvard alumni are running, Alan Khazei ’87 and Steve Pagliuca HBS ’82, and both came to HLS last Thursday to discuss their campaigns and rally support. The Harvard Law Record was able to meet briefly with Khazei to discuss his grassroots strategy for getting on the ballot, and his insights into the influence of the late Senator Kennedy on his strategy and purpose. Full story

We, the People of Europe

How the Lisbon Treaty makes the EU more democratic

Today, after the Czech Republic's highest court failed to find any grounds on which it was unconstitutional, Czech President Václav Klaus finally signed the Lisbon Treaty. The debate on the treaty's contents, however, is far from over: many claim it is is anti-democratic. But these arguments are misleading: they are based on a wrong conceptual approach to democracy in the EU's unique post- and transnational context. Full story

Theatre: Fall farce serves insanity spiked with homicide

A cup of tea. Some finger sandwiches. A plate of roast beef with a glass of elderberry wine. Sweet merciful wine. Joseph Kesserling's "Arsenic and Old Lace" takes the simple pleasures of American family life and transmogrifies them into the absurd veneer of a family of homicidal psychotics. This combination of banality and madness proved to be an excellent choice for the HLS Drama Society’s fall show. Full story

Cambridge, USA: The boy who doesn't sleep

After spending a relaxing year in the U.K., JESSICA CORSI thought she had re-acclimatized herself to Harvard Law School’s culture of crazed workaholism – until she came upon a 1L who likes to trade the refreshment of sleep for more reading. Is insomnia, she wonders, the secret to securing the Sears Prize? Full story