Harvard Law School

Not too many of Adam Braskich's classmates at Harvard Law School this fall will have spent an afternoon quite like this. On a sweltering day inside a South Baltimore apartment, he stood over the body of an elderly man that was discovered by a friend. Trying to discern the man's identity and find his family, the officer and a medic picked through his possessions, looking for anything that might help. Another medic rushed out, overcome by the stench. Braskich, a 26-year-old native of Illinois who double-majored in criminal justice and philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, said he's enjoyed the past three years in the city's diverse neighborhoods, getting to know residents and drug dealers alike.

I was saddened to read the obituaries for Anthony Lewis, the Pultizer Prize-winning reporter, columnist and author. He may be most familiar for his decades of work at the New York Times. But his book, "Gideon's Trumpet," was one of the first -- and best -- examples of literary journalism, which has flourished in the half-century that has followed its publication. In classic story-telling style, it explored a landmark Supreme Court case that granted legal representation to the poor, and was a forerunner of more current works such as Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" or Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Why should President Obama have to show his birth certificate to prove he is an American citizen when other presidents have not been asked to show theirs? It seems that Donald Trump and all the other doubters are sideshow carnival barkers making much ado about nothing. Now that the world has seen the document, the naysayers will continue to doubt the president's authenticity as much as they always have. As for Mr. Trump's calling Obama's acceptance into Harvard Law School unfair because of his family income, that is ludicrous.

The political world is a-twitter about the president's recent statements on the condition of the economy. You know, the one where President Barack Obama said the private sector is "doing fine. " Well, that one was not received in the way it was intended. In fact, it generated so much ridicule that a few hours later the president again took to the public stage in order to correct his initial assessment. The subsequent damage control statement did little to calm the political waters, however.

NEWS THAT New Jersey entrepreneur Henry M. Rowan is donating $100 million to Glassboro State College has overshadowed a Baltimore native's equally noteworthy gift to Harvard Law School.Reginald F. Lewis, who was raised in West Baltimore and graduated from Dunbar High School, announced recently that he will be giving $3 million to Harvard Law School -- the largest single gift in the school's 175-year history.Mr. Lewis, 48, is not a well-known figure in Baltimore because most of his career has been spent in the boardrooms of New York and European capitals.

I was saddened to read the obituaries for Anthony Lewis, the Pultizer Prize-winning reporter, columnist and author. He may be most familiar for his decades of work at the New York Times. But his book, "Gideon's Trumpet," was one of the first -- and best -- examples of literary journalism, which has flourished in the half-century that has followed its publication. In classic story-telling style, it explored a landmark Supreme Court case that granted legal representation to the poor, and was a forerunner of more current works such as Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" or Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

When Derrick Bell walked away from a tenured position at Harvard Law School in a dispute over its hiring practices, he lost a job but gained a platform."

Of all the things in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's paper trail, the one she may regret the most when her Senate confirmation hearing opens today is a 1995 University of Chicago Law Review article about the very process she's about to undergo. She argued that high court confirmation hearings had become useless "lovefests" between question-dodging nominees and compliant senators. The hearings revealed "far too little" about the nominees' views about the law and the constitution, she wrote.

BOSTON - Snaps to the little girl leaving Legally Blonde 2 three steps behind me. There I was trying to figure out what happened to the original fizz when she said to her mom: "Don't you think she was dumber in his movie?" YESSS. And a middle-schooler shall lead us. As a blond by nature and nurture, I kind of liked the first Reese Witherspoon comedy about the sorority shopaholic dumped by a preppy boyfriend who told her, "If I'm going to be a senator by the time I'm 30, I need to marry a Jackie, not a Marilyn."

The political world is a-twitter about the president's recent statements on the condition of the economy. You know, the one where President Barack Obama said the private sector is "doing fine. " Well, that one was not received in the way it was intended. In fact, it generated so much ridicule that a few hours later the president again took to the public stage in order to correct his initial assessment. The subsequent damage control statement did little to calm the political waters, however.

Not too many of Adam Braskich's classmates at Harvard Law School this fall will have spent an afternoon quite like this. On a sweltering day inside a South Baltimore apartment, he stood over the body of an elderly man that was discovered by a friend. Trying to discern the man's identity and find his family, the officer and a medic picked through his possessions, looking for anything that might help. Another medic rushed out, overcome by the stench. Braskich, a 26-year-old native of Illinois who double-majored in criminal justice and philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, said he's enjoyed the past three years in the city's diverse neighborhoods, getting to know residents and drug dealers alike.

Why should President Obama have to show his birth certificate to prove he is an American citizen when other presidents have not been asked to show theirs? It seems that Donald Trump and all the other doubters are sideshow carnival barkers making much ado about nothing. Now that the world has seen the document, the naysayers will continue to doubt the president's authenticity as much as they always have. As for Mr. Trump's calling Obama's acceptance into Harvard Law School unfair because of his family income, that is ludicrous.

With her confirmation by the Senate as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, Elena Kagan becomes only the fourth woman ever to serve on the nation's highest court. At 50, the former Harvard Law School dean and Obama administration solicitor general can look forward to decades on the bench, where we hope she'll be a moderating force on a court that, like the Senate that confirmed her 63-to-37, has become increasingly polarized in recent decades. Justice Kagan's swearing-in Saturday marks the first time that three female justices will sit on the court concurrently, and she brings impeccable credentials and a wealth of experience to the job, though she has never served as a judge.

Of all the things in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's paper trail, the one she may regret the most when her Senate confirmation hearing opens today is a 1995 University of Chicago Law Review article about the very process she's about to undergo. She argued that high court confirmation hearings had become useless "lovefests" between question-dodging nominees and compliant senators. The hearings revealed "far too little" about the nominees' views about the law and the constitution, she wrote.

BOSTON - Snaps to the little girl leaving Legally Blonde 2 three steps behind me. There I was trying to figure out what happened to the original fizz when she said to her mom: "Don't you think she was dumber in his movie?" YESSS. And a middle-schooler shall lead us. As a blond by nature and nurture, I kind of liked the first Reese Witherspoon comedy about the sorority shopaholic dumped by a preppy boyfriend who told her, "If I'm going to be a senator by the time I'm 30, I need to marry a Jackie, not a Marilyn."

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When it comes to ripping off the Harvard empire, no scheme is too tiny or far-flung to keep Rick Calixto from ruthlessly crushing it. Take South Korea's Harvard English Academy. The language school draped "Harvard" banners on and off campus to catch the eye of potential students, at least some of whom surely wondered whether that famous overseas university had opened a branch there. Some of Harvard University's spies took note, too. They called Calixto, who, from his Harvard Square office, combats misuse of the university's trademarks.

A former Justice Department lawyer and Air Force officer was indicted yesterday on 13 counts of credit card fraud.Eugene M. Frese, a Harvard graduate and high-ranking Republican political appointee was arrested at his companion's Edgewater home amid a stockpile of money, food, weapons and credit cards. At his detention hearing three weeks ago, prosecutors said that Frese was afraid chaos would reign at the end of the year."We have information that leads us to believe he is preoccupied with the millennium problem," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Griffin.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When it comes to ripping off the Harvard empire, no scheme is too tiny or far-flung to keep Rick Calixto from ruthlessly crushing it. Take South Korea's Harvard English Academy. The language school draped "Harvard" banners on and off campus to catch the eye of potential students, at least some of whom surely wondered whether that famous overseas university had opened a branch there. Some of Harvard University's spies took note, too. They called Calixto, who, from his Harvard Square office, combats misuse of the university's trademarks.

A former Justice Department lawyer and Air Force officer was indicted yesterday on 13 counts of credit card fraud.Eugene M. Frese, a Harvard graduate and high-ranking Republican political appointee was arrested at his companion's Edgewater home amid a stockpile of money, food, weapons and credit cards. At his detention hearing three weeks ago, prosecutors said that Frese was afraid chaos would reign at the end of the year."We have information that leads us to believe he is preoccupied with the millennium problem," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Griffin.

When Derrick Bell walked away from a tenured position at Harvard Law School in a dispute over its hiring practices, he lost a job but gained a platform."