As part of its continuing campaign to encourage students and graduates to pursue careers in public interest, the law school held a "Thank You For Not Being Evil" ceremony last Wednesday recognizing graduates who chose to take jobs with employers who are not primarily dedicated to destroying weaker businesses, poor people, or the environment.
"You," Dean Kagan told the assembled crowd, "are exemplifying what this law school is all about: not actively working to make the world a worse place. You should be proud of yourselves for bucking peer pressure and institutional inertia and instead making a courageous choice to live up to your own ideals and the bare minimum standards of human decency."
In all, some 20 graduates coming from diverse fields such as immigration, family law, and bankruptcy law were honored. "Receiving the award was actually a huge surprise," said Alexandra Dupree, '03. "I mean, I work for a small firm that does family law work, and I feel pretty good about what I'm doing most days, but I was really pleased that the law school felt that my general lack of malevolence towards humanity was worthy of special recognition."
Some students and graduates, however, argued that the awards sent the wrong message to students. "The law school's insistence on demonizing - in this case, almost literally - those of its students who go into private practice is disheartening," said one 3L, who will pursue a career in corporate law.
"Really," he continued, "some of us are just really interested in high powered finance deals and spending our weekend time pouring over detailed financial statements. We don't deserve to be judged by the law school for this."
In the weeks leading up to the awards, students were asked to nominate award winners by e-mail. Each student at the law school received an average of 87 messages urging them to submit nominations, and some students commented that these messages appeared "increasingly desperate" in tone.
"The first message just asked us to send names," said 1L Tim Jeffries. "And then they started telling us that it was 'VERY IMPORTANT' that 'EVERYONE in the HLS community participate.' With those capitals and everything. It was bizarre!"
The administration declined to reveal how many nominations were received, and stated only that they were pleased with the turnout at the ceremony. Administrators also declined to comment on rumors that one prominent law school graduate had been dropped from the list of award winners at the last minute due to "excessive evil behavior."
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