2008 Woodie Awards
Fenno and the Race to the Charles Hotel
The air was crispening: autumn had arrived, and OCI was in full swing. These were the times, Fenno thought, that tried men's souls. He'd been in top form striding into class, smartly clad in his new suit and crest-covered cravat. This above all was the day he'd been waiting for: the interview with the firm of his dreams. Rising that morning, Fenno's mind had swirled with the imagined spoils of victory: the corner office high above Midtown, where groveling Wall Street clients would lay their last (but still vast) riches at his feet, begging in fealty for his carefully-crafted legal acumen, desperate to save their dwindling fortunes from the regulators' wrathful clutch.…
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Smears and Jeers: Hating on Harvard
This election year presents the United States with a historic choice. Yes, America might wake up on November 5 and discover it has elected a Harvard Law School graduate president. As this compilation of quotes from over the last few weeks shows, some commentators just can't handle the prospect.…
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Looking back at today
These were the days when the credit markets stood still, the days where Wall Street turned its weary eyes toward Washington for rescue from an indefinable menace. These were the days when big banks failed, when billion-dollar bailouts became second page news to trillion-dollar prayers, when Governor Sarah Palin, the much-maligned Republican Vice Presidential candidate, suddenly seemed lucid with her prognostication that the Credit Crisis of 2008 could be as dreadful as the Great Depression.…
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A guide for new citizens of Red Sox Nation
For those of you who have come to HLS from far beyond New England, welcome to a Massachusetts October - a cold, dreary, and wet season redeemed only by the magic of playoff baseball and, in years past, the beginning of yet another Patriots juggernaut. Unless you've been reading for class way too closely, you know that the Patriots dynasty has been put on hold by all-world quarterback Tom Brady's Week 1 knee injury and that the Red Sox will return to the playoffs for the fifth time in the last six years.…
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One year later: petitioners commemorate Burma protests
They started in August. The decision by Burma's ruling junta government to slash fuel subsidies sent gas prices soaring across the Southeast Asian nation, and tempers flared. Soon, Buddhist monks were out in the streets, and the uprising was general. After years of repression, Western speculators thrilled to the possibility that the Burmese people might take their country back.…
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