When I was a 1L, Professor Dershowitz told my section an anecdote about something a former dean here used to tell the students: "Movies are very important to us here at Harvard Law School," he mock-boomed, "choose the one you see this year very carefully." Thankfully, things have changed since that point, as the very existence of my position here attests. I've had a wonderful time working as Entertainment Editor of the Record for the past two years, from the first submission I received (which happened to be a very critical review of a classmate's book), to the final review I wrote two weeks ago. Special thanks to Anna Brook and to everyone who took the time out to send in their thoughts on a book, film, restaurant, DVD, sporting event, or, in one case, a trip to the beach.
If there's any wisdom that I can impart upon leaving HLS, it's that taking the time to occasionally zone out and watch a movie (or the entire first season of "Knight Rider," if that's what gets you going) can be extremely therapeutic. The combination of Netflix and TiVo, though not the best when trying to prepare for an Admin panel discussion, has prevented a former English major such as myself from hurtling headlong over the precipice of pure utilitarianism over the past three years. Just as importantly, it's helped me to keep some kind of point of reference when talking to friends and family who avoided law school, people who blissfully go about their lives without using terms like res judicata. So the next time you find yourself sitting down to watch a seven-hour marathon of "Scrubs" episodes you've already seen on a Saturday, or watching the second half of Rocky because they're playing it on AMC yet again at 2:30 in the morning, think of it not as procrastination, but as mental health care. And when the Admin books try to tear you away, just remember the saying popularized by our current dean here at HLS: "You've already won."
My wife's father is hessaby as in www.hessaby.com (they stole his cash and put it there) and my mother-in-law family is related by marriage tot the Pakravans., who headed the SAVAKPan Am was nicknamed PanIran as the Shah's family was the largest shareholder. I have extreme amount of details of exactly was going on
from the Iranians wanting him to return their assets to other coup attempts to 6 months before the Shah son pretended he was bankrupt in a public trial, to my wifes relative coming to our house talking about the coup and we did not know they were in Washington DC, to the Iran Contra hearings trial that was going to start Feb 20 th, 1989 to the tipping of the coup to the Iranian govt, ,to something in writing I can prove the coup to the Salamon Rushtie Feb 14th insult to islam to get the people on the street to avoid the coup to the Iranian govt announcement of a coup by 'dissent mullahs' announced at the time to the negiotations between the Bush people involved pretending they were going to make a deal to the 'nice' stories plant in US newspapers at the time (including the Post) as part of the negotation to the fact the bomb had to placed out of London based on the flight path as I worked at USAir at the time creating the flight plans for the 'planes to fly themselves' to overt CIA agents around me at the time to the fact that Bollier, the guy who made the timer for the bomb's wide was IRANIAN and the Libyans told me and said they were not allowed to say... there were 3 witness only.. the main one was trashed.. Bollier and a guy whom said he soldm the Libyan a suitcase in Malta.. hence, one the suitcase guy would be left.. the Libyans did not put up a defence in exchange for evidence to trash the main witness on the stand to what an overt CIA agent told me in the US 4 years later.. etc. etc and the details of several coups to the new World bank (my wie's cousin involved who used to work at the work bank)and US loans starting May 1990 to Iran to the fact that PANAm was shut down 18 months later as they thought it would be targeted again because of the Shah connection (the US airlines go in and out of bankruptcy all the time - this was the one of the first US airlines - an ICON) etc
I also know where the Iranian govt officials have money in the US, Canada and UK; the back door dealing etccall me for details.. Barry Lanza 00 44 1786831554.. My father-in-law was a convicted spy given amnesty