 "Photo: Lam Ho")
 "Photo: Lam Ho")
"Big ups to all my peeps at the "Giving Tree." Yo!! Ya'll were really on the ball with the fresh gear you sent…My gift was really the bomb!!!"
"I'd just like to offer a sincere Thank You. Thanks from the bottom of my heart."
"May you have the same joy you brought me!"
These are some of the words of gratitude expressed by the recipients of gifts from the Giving Tree at Harvard Law School. In its second year, the HLS Giving Tree, presented by the Dean of Students Office, HL Central, and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, raised over 550 gifts for the children of families served by Harvard Law School's clinical and pro-bono programs--twice as many gifts as in its inaugural year. Overall, 71 families received holiday gifts from the HLS Giving Tree.
Clients from the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center, Tenant Advocacy Project, and R.O.A.D. (Reaching Out About Depression) received presents for their children that included Playstation videogames, iPods, clothing, and baby strollers. The gifts were collected from Harvard Law School students, faculty, and staff from December 1st through December 20th. From December 20th to the 24th, the gifts were picked up from either the Legal Aid Bureau or the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain. Gifts were delivered to the homes of clients who were unable to pick them up.
The recipients of the gifts sent cards, made phone calls, gave big hugs, and even created a scrapbook, but it was the expressions on the faces of the women, men, and children who received the gifts, some of whom cried, that best captured the appreciation they felt. Being able to witness these moments also provided great satisfaction to the organizers of the HLS Giving Tree, who felt rewarded for their hard work. Along with coordinators Lam Ho and Emily Broad, Allison Barrows, Ruth Bray, and Rochelle Lee assisted with purchasing, gift-wrapping, and delivering the gifts. Invaluable contributions were also made by Michael Fournier in the Events Office, Susana Arteta at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and Sara Roitman at Harvard Defenders.
Additionally, the 1L sections made enormous contributions to the Giving Tree. Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 all "sponsored " several families and purchased all the items on the family wishlists. Altogether, these sections donated over one -third of the presents. Under the leadership of 1L Lindsay Breedlove, Section 6 raised over $1400 and fulfilled the wishes of 21 children; they even wrapped all the gifts!
Some additional gifts were also purchased through funds donated by firm sponsors: Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP; Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP; and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP--Boston Office.
And it was not only the clients who were grateful for the gifts; the clinical and pro-bono programs involved with the Giving Tree appreciated the opportunity to assist their clients beyond their usual legal services. Many clinical instructors and students expressed delight at being able to help out in an additional and different way, beyond the usual scope of law school clinical work, especially during the financially and emotionally difficult holiday period. All of the programs are excited to continue and expand their involvement with the Giving Tree in upcoming years.
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