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...supposed to make convictions difficult. The Constitution requires the government to be damned sure someone is guilty before taking away his life or liberty. "Reasonable doubt," though "quantitatively imprecise," denotes a high "degree of confidence" in a suspect's guilt, wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Harlan in the 1970 case that gave a constitutional imprimatur to the standard...
Though the Harvard Democrats do not officially endorse any primary candidate, President Brigit M. Helgen ’08 and Vice-President Harlan M. Piper ’08 attended Clinton’s speech...
Court dissenters have also been crucial to the civil rights of African Americans. In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that keeping blacks and whites separate but equal was just fine. Only Justice John Harlan found fault with that state of affairs, writing as the lone dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson that "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." It would take more than a half-century, but the wisdom of his words finally persuaded the court to acknowledge in Brown that "'separate but equal' has no place" in public education...
...possible nominee Christopher J. Dodd, D.-Conn., fielded questions from about 350 spectators during the first leg of “Conversations with Candidates.” The series, hosted by the Harvard College Democrats, has at least four more potential presidential nominees lined up, said Dems Vice President Harlan M. Piper ’08. Piper declined to specify which candidates. While Dodd has not yet officially declared his candidacy, he did offer that he is “giving some serious consideration to being the Democratic candidate in 2008.” The wide-ranging forum touched...
...addition, members at large—as opposed to just the officers—were invited to vote, a change that Dems Vice President Harlan M. Piper ’08 described as a move away from decisions made in "metaphorical smoke-filled rooms...